List of Slavic Mythological Figures - Spirits and Demons

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