The Goddess

A character known in Lesser Known, Southern Mazovia, in the areas of the Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Slovak borderlands.

The creature is described as an evil ugly woman with a tall, ungainly figure, a disproportionately large head, a swollen belly, crooked legs, black teeth, large breasts that were thrown back over her shoulder. It lives in caves, in swamps, near reservoirs, in ravines. They appear most often at night in inclement weather. She is known for abductions and substitution of children.

The goddesses tortured people at night, crushed, strangled, suckled the breasts of children and men, sent damage to children. Even for cattle, the goddesses were dangerous - they frightened and destroyed cattle on pastures. They, like the mermaids, had a special love for horses. It was believed that the goddesses ride horses at night, driving them so that in the morning they are in soap.

Except for names like Polish. boginka, boginia, ubohenka, ubogini, slovak. bohynka, boginka, bohyna, Ukrainian goddess, bohynia the goddess may bear the names mamuna (malopol., Mazovian., v.-Slovac., z.-Ukrainian.), sybiela (Mazovian.), diablica, czarownica, zły duch, babula, matrona, obluda (Rzeszow Voivodeship), mara (Bialystok Voivodeship), nocula, sidula, odmienica (Lublin Voivodeship), czortowa žinka, lisnica (Ukrainian).

Goddesses can have proper names (Polish. Ciacia, Lacia, Fuc, Puc; Slovak. Divá žena).

A character close to the goddess is a Carpathian. divozhena, dika baba

Website bestiary.us lists the following spellings:

• Babice is a variant of the Serbian name of the Goddess (feminine demon, dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)
• Babula is a variant of the Lesser Polish name of the Goddess (feminine demon, dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)
• Boginka is a variant of the Slovak name of the Goddess (feminine demon, dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)
• Boginki — Polish spelling of the name Boginki
• Bogunki is a variant of the Polish spelling of the name Bogunki
• Bohyna is a variant of the Slovak name of the Goddess (feminine demon, dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)
• Bohynka is a variant of the Slovak name of the Goddess (feminine demon, dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)
• Mamuna is a variant of the Lesser Polish, Mazovian, East Slovak and West Ukrainian name of the Goddess (a feminine demon dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)
• Matrona is a variant of the Lesser Polish name of the Goddess (feminine demon, dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)
• Nocula is a variant of the Lesser Polish name of the Goddess (feminine demon, dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)
• Obluda is a variant of the Lesser Polish name of the Goddess (feminine demon, dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)
• Odmienica is a variant of the Lesser Polish name of the Goddess (feminine demon, dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)
• Sidula is a variant of the Lesser Polish name of the Goddess (feminine demon, dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)
• Sybiela is a variant of the Mazovian name of the Goddess (feminine demon, dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)
• Ubohenka is a variant of the Polish name of the Goddess (feminine demon, dangerous for pregnant women and women in labor)