Spirits and Demons
- Ala - Demons of bad weather
- Baba Yaga - A witch-like character who eats small children and lives in a house which stands on chicken feet
- Bagiennik - Water demons who lived in lakes and rivers
- Bannik - A bathhouse spirit with the ability to predict the future
- Bies - An evil spirit
- Blud - An evil spirit who causes disorientation
- Boginki - Polish spirits who were said to steal babies and replace them with Odmience
- Dola - Protective spirits who embody human fate
- Domovoi - Household spirits
- Drekavac - A creature believed to come from the soul of a dead unbaptised child
- German - A male spirit associated with rain and hail
- Kikimora - Female household spirit, sometimes said to be married to the Domovoi
- Koschei - An evil being who cannot be killed because his soul is hidden separate from his body
- Leshy - Woodland spirits who protect wild animals and forests
- Likho - A one-eyed embodiment of evil fate and misfortune
- Polevik - Field spirits who appear either at noon or at sunset
- Polunocnica - "Lady Midnight", a demoness said to frighten children at night
- Pscipolnitsa - "Lady Midday"; a noon demon who roamed the fields and struck down workers with heatstroke
- Raróg - Creature who turns himself into a whirlwind
- Rusalka - Often-malevolent female ghosts, water nymphs, succubi or mermaid-like demons that dwelled in waterways
- Shishiga - Female creature who harasses people and brings misfortune to drunkards
- Skrzak - A flying imp
- Stuhać - A demonic, mountain-dwelling creature
- Topielec - Malevolent spirits of human souls that died drowning
- Vampir - A revenant that feeds on the blood of the living
- Vila - Fairy-like spirits
- Vodyanoy - A male water spirit
- Vucari- Wolf-humans
- Zduhać - A man with extraordinary supernatural abilities
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