It is probably difficult to imagine a more mystical and mysterious pet than a cat. Judge for yourself, the dog is faithful, the guinea pig is funny, the parrot is talkative, and the cat … The cat always does what he wants and has much more extensive abilities than other human pets.
ARYS-FIELD is a fabulously fast creature like the wind, into which a young woman has turned, bewitched by an evil witch. Arys-Pole became the leader of the animal pack and only occasionally, at night, ran home to feed her child. She could only use three nights a year to turn into a woman, and then she had to flee to the distant kingdom.
ARS-FIELD refers to the WEREWOLF.
WITCH CAT (Baba Yaga's cat) - (usually a black cat). The cats lived in the service of witches and carried out their various assignments. The duties of the cats were charged with guarding the house in the absence of the mistress, watching over the prisoners, helping with the housework.
EARTH CAT - underground cat guarding treasures. According to the legends of Russian gold miners, one of the guardians of the enchanted treasures is an earthen cat. The image of an earthen cat in the Ural beliefs, perhaps, was inspired by a natural phenomenon - these are flickering (like cat's eyes) sulfur lights emerging from the ground. Let us clarify, however, that, according to the version of the expert on the Ural beliefs PP Bazhov, the cat's eyes are not “flickering”, but the ears: “… suddenly two blue lights flashed. Neither give nor take - cat ears. Bottom wider, up to nothing went … I ran up - as if two lights were burning, and between them a small hill, like a cat's head.
KOT BYUN is a magic kitty that weakens everyone who tries to approach him with the help of songs and spells. Bayun sits on a high iron pillar. He weakens anyone who tries to approach him with songs and spells. To capture the magic cat, Ivan Tsarevich puts on an iron cap and iron mittens.
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Bayun the Cat is a huge cat with a magical voice. He speaks and lulls with his tales the travelers who have approached and those of them who do not have enough strength to resist his magic and who are not prepared for a fight with him, the cat-sorcerer ruthlessly kills. But those who can get a cat will find salvation from all diseases and ailments - Bayun's tales are curative.
LYUB is the guardian spirit of the marriage bed. He presented himself as a big-eared, shaggy, golden-haired cat with an arrowhead stalk in its teeth. Fluffy Lyub was exceptionally red (matching the color of the sun). Lyub is an important mythological character, endowed with quite expressive power and remarkable powers.
Lyuba was in charge of guarding the marriage bed as a family shrine. Agree, the mission is as honorable as it is responsible.
Lyuba should have been humiliated in every possible way so that he would drive Nelyub away from the bedroom - the same cat, only black and spiteful.
LOVE is an evil spirit - the antipode of Lyuba. Nelyub had an absolutely black color, and unnecessarily did not release a henbane branch from his teeth. If, contrary to hopes, he makes his way to the merciful, then they will in no way be able to avoid failure, not only in love joys, but also in actions aimed at adding a family. And this, according to ancient custom, is a shame, a stain on the family.
Needless to say, Lyuba should have been welcomed in every possible way. And Nelyub … well, he also did not doze, and Russian folklore did not fail to note this. When today, characterizing the situation of quarreled people, we say that “a black cat ran between them,” we don’t think for a minute that initially the whole thing was in him - in Nelyub.
So let's not allow his meanness! We bake cakes, stick mushrooms - and in the oven. And then - to a secluded place for Lyub to visit. And let the words of love shine, the embrace will be hot and family life will be true. Let it be so!
OBDERIKHA (Bannitsa).
Bannik in female guise is called BANNIKHA, (SAUNA MOTHER, OBDERIKHA). Her temper is even more abrupt than that of a bahnik, if he more often frightens careless washers, then a rip-off can kill for non-compliance with bath rituals or inattention to his person. Like the bathhouse, she needs to leave water, soap and a broom.
Bannik women - Obderichs are able to change their appearance, turning into a big black cat or even a man.
KORGORUSHI (Kolovershi) - assistants to the courtyard in East Slavic mythology. They are shown in the form of cats, most often black. According to southern Russian beliefs, they bring supplies and money to their owner from other houses, stealing from under the nose of a careless neighbor, a courtyard. Because of this, the courtyards most often quarrel. During these quarrels, the Korgorushs chatter, break the dishes, turn everything in the house upside down.
KIKIMORA HOUSE - an evil and harmful spirit, a nasty little woman. Known enemy of the Brownie. Sleep likes to misbehave in the house, rattles dishes, throws and breaks dishes, spoils food, throws bulbs from underground or from behind the stove, knocks with views, box lids. During the day, the kikimors are inactive, and at night they begin to be naughty. For the most part, they do not cause serious harm to a person, mostly they only arrange small leprosy: either they knock with something at night, then they begin to creak. Then suddenly it will rumble, crackle on the ceiling; then in the dark roll up to someone from the family on the legs and knock him down; then when everyone is asleep, he walks around the hut, hums, roars and sniffs like a bear cub; then in the middle of the night it jumps across the floor with blue lights. If the kikimora dislikes one of the family members, then the leprosy will become much more serious: the spirit will begin to break furniture, break dishes, harass livestock. The kikimora's favorite hobby is spinning yarn: sometimes he sits in the corner at night and starts working, and so on until the morning, but there is no sense in this work, it will only confuse the threads, and tear the yarn. Sometimes the kikimora turns into a gray cat.