A Russian’s Dark Friend
Russia is a vast country and within such vast countries there are always their own personal monsters. I decided I would cover a few of these loves creatures just for fun’s sake. Vodyanoi: This is a water spirit that likes to dwell within ponds, rivers, lakes, and a large assortment of watery bodies. Their physical homes range from underwater palaces made of crystal, gold, and silver retrieved from ship wrecks to smaller homes of logs and sand. They rest in their homes during the day and at night make loud noises with the water that can be heard from far away. Like any other monster, these creatures hate humans and will drag them into their watery home when and if they can. They hate traveling far form the banks of their home and the females refuse to walk out past their waist line. Within the water they are almost invincible but as such, on land they are quite weak. Now their personalities are very strange. As they are practically immortal but their age seems to wane and wax with the moon, they have gained strange, simple habits of accepting scrifices of honeyed dead horses that had been hobbled. They also accept drunken men thrown into their watery homes as a sign of trust. It's said that the drowned become their slaves and they become angry when the bodies are removed because they are their rightful property. These creatures can be excorcised like bad spirits if they become too much of a hastle and a nuisance but their being goes either way, from good or bad. Koschei the Immortal: In Russian lore, there is an evil, senile old man who is mainly targeting young women. Now he can't be killed by ordinary means on his body because his soul is hidden away somewhere in a way that no one will get ahold of him. However if someone does have his soul he will lose the power of his magic and slowly weaken. The item possessing the soul is also a way for someone to have a voodoo power over this being, able to throw him about against his will. Rusalka: These creatures are russian water nymphai who live within waterways. Traditionally they were fish women living in rivers that would walk along the banks and dance in the middle of the night. Just like all nymphs, these creatures lure men to the floors of their watery abyss to live with them, then again I believe they forget that normal human's can't breath under the water. Now in some tales they cannot leave water, and others they climb into trees and sing songs and the like. They are assumed the most dangerous during Rusalka Week, where they left the waters at night and swung in the branches of birches and willows. No human was allowed to swim in the water lest they were drowned.
Truly yours,
~Djabuti Jerald~
