This is how I visualize the Slavic mythical creature Rusalka✧*。
Rusalka or Rusalki are creatures ,believed by Slavic Pagan people, that live beneath water or swamps. Before 19th century, Rusalkis were described as very benevolent creatures but the accounts got changed with time. It is accounted by most stories that the soul of a young woman who had died in or near a river or a lake would come back to haunt that waterway.
Their purpose is to lure both married and young men, seduced by either her looks or her voice, into the depths of said waterways where she would entangle their feet with her long hair and submerge them. Her body would instantly become very slippery and not allow the victim to cling on to her body in order to reach the surface. She would then wait until the victim had drowned, or, on some occasions, tickle them to death.
It is still believed in Slavic regions that Rusalkis/ Rusalkas exist to avenge the souls of innocent girls who were forced to drown themselves to death.🥀
Rusalka or Rusalki are creatures ,believed by Slavic Pagan people, that live beneath water or swamps. Before 19th century, Rusalkis were described as very benevolent creatures but the accounts got changed with time. It is accounted by most stories that the soul of a young woman who had died in or near a river or a lake would come back to haunt that waterway.
Their purpose is to lure both married and young men, seduced by either her looks or her voice, into the depths of said waterways where she would entangle their feet with her long hair and submerge them. Her body would instantly become very slippery and not allow the victim to cling on to her body in order to reach the surface. She would then wait until the victim had drowned, or, on some occasions, tickle them to death.
It is still believed in Slavic regions that Rusalkis/ Rusalkas exist to avenge the souls of innocent girls who were forced to drown themselves to death.🥀
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