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Trouble and Damage Makers

Khapun is а small old man who frightens children. It flows over the earth with a huge bag where it puts disobedient children.

Zheleznaya Baba is a humanoid spirit that lives in kitchen gardens and fields. It is a short old woman with iron breasts and iron hooks. It is an evil spirit that catches and kills children left in the field alone.

Trastsa is an evil spirit that sends different diseases on people. It appears in spring and in autumn.

In Slavic folklore Rosomakha is a fantastic creature with unplaited hair ("beastwoman") living in the rye field or hemp. It always appears with a baby in hands and combs its hair with a pike comb.

Volosen is a home spirit that disturbs night dreaming and at the same time it is the name of skin disease. It is a short ugly being with long dense wool, with seven palms and long nails. It can scratch people, tousle their hair.

Serbay is an evil spirit, a personification of hunger. To get rid of it you should bring the first sheaf into the house.

In Belarusian and Slavic mythology Zlydzen is a tiny harmful creature that often lives under the stove. Zlydni are symbols of cowardice, meanness, harm. Zlydni are coward therefore they appear only in groups. They look like small humpbacked dogs or cats dressed in big boots and earflaps. The most widespread tricks of them are to add some sand into porridge or flour, to throw pans, to break ware, to pour water into oil. When Zlydzen appears in the house the hosts lose their money and wealth.

Kumelgan is an evil spirit with a human body covered with horse hair and with ahead of a horse (according to other sources it has hooves). Sometimes it walks like a horse, sometimes like a man. It hates horses and does harm to them: kills or maims.

White Death is a spirit of a young woman in a white wedding dress. If it suddenly appears in front of a man out of the ground it means inevitable death. (Supplement 2)

In Belarusian folklore Khikhitun is an evil spirit that laughs at the moment when a person gets in trouble. It is a little creature looking like a monkey with little horns on its head.

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