Russian Folklore Monsters

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Russian folklore monsters. Baba yaga a powerful russian witch which may be a remnant of russia s fairy faith as being related to the wind or the moon. Bagiennik a water monster which secreats hot oily liquid from its body. Mostly it appeared as a man with animal features paws instead of arms horns on his head or as an ugly old man enmeshed in mud with a long beard. Usually in stories they have odd number of heads rarely two.

They spit fire have terrible roar and have evil look on their faces. It s an embodiment of a dangerous and cruel environment. Azhdaya is demonic version of zmay zmey dragon. Many of the monsters are taken directly from or inspired by slavic mythology such as the rusalka the striga and the vodyanoi.

Vodyanoy is a water evil spirit according to slavic mythology. Russian fairy tales list of russian monsters and fairies alkonost birds with the heads of women. The vodyanoi literally the one in the water is widely featured in folklore because russia is a country of rivers lakes and seas which were the main trade routes in times gone by. Mythical characters spirits and creatures edit as is common in folklore there is no standard set of characteristics or names and spirits or magical creatures are referred to by many names often identifying.