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This section contains information about phenomena that are generally believed to have a supernatural, mystical nature, and the very existence of which is currently in doubt.Phenomena Hierarchy

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Added	Fri, 06/01/2023
Hierarchy	Phenomena Неизвестные существа Spirits Духи-хранители Житень
Другие названия	The living grandfather Zhytsen Zhitnaya baba
Область распространения	Belarus
Характерные признаки	→ → → →
Sources	ru.wikipedia.org

The spirit is the owner of the field among Belarusians. His female version is a peasant woman. This is the ancient Belarusian god of fertility and autumn.

He looks like a little old man with a long beard. The inhabitant walks through the fields and makes sure that the harvest in the fields is well harvested. The inhabitant found the badly threshed ears thrown, collected them in sheaves and transferred them to the plots of more careful owners.

It has been described (and probably invented) a folklorist Pavel Shpilevsky (Drevlyansky).

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