Slavic evil spirits part 2 " wood goblin"

Lesovik-leshy - one of the most known lowest spirits of Slavic mythology living in a forest thicket. As he lives already Abroad the human settlement, it is considered hostile and dangerous to the person. He is able to turn around, is in the form of the decrepit old man, or a tree, a bear. Sometimes he shouts in the wood and frightens people. The wood goblin - the wolf and bear shepherd, all animals in the wood submit to him. He protects the wood and forest animals therefore woodcutters and hunters are afraid of him. Having found out that in some thicket there lives a wood goblin, people avoid it.

The wood goblin the chief over all trees and animals, without his permission you shouldn't come into the wood. The wood goblin growth about a grass, height about a pine, and usually - the simple man, only the caftan at it will be wrapped up on the right side and the obutka is put on the contrary; eyes burn with green fire, hair at the Wood goblin long gray-green, on the person there are neither eyelashes, nor eyebrows. An appearance it is similar per capita only all from top to toe in wool to the Passer tries to pretend to be the person, but it is easy to expose it when you look through the right ear of a horse.
The wood goblin likes to take for a ride to travelers and forces down them from a footpath confusing tracks and beginning to drive circles.
The wood goblin can bypass around the careless person, and that will long rush about in a magic circle, not in forces to cross the closed line. But the Wood goblin, as well as all live, the nature is able to render good for good. And it needs only one: that the person, entering the wood respected forest laws, didn't do to the wood harm. And very much the Wood goblin will be delighted if to leave him somewhere on delicacy hemp what don't grow in the wood, pie, gingerbread, and to tell aloud thanks for mushrooms and berries.
The wood goblin was full mister of the woods. But at the same time he didn't shun to leave the territory and to annoy people in their dwellings. Tell that wood goblins lived in the wood in an izba, took in the wife of the got lost girls, and conducted the most usual economy. Only him neither to sow, nor to reap, nor cows needed to be milked. Wood goblins got necessary belongings and food in the village: looked which of hostesses doesn't bless food who is lazy to cross house utensils and clothes who doesn't say a prayer before milking or sowing - and then abducted all this not blessed good. However, lonely wood goblins lived in dense canes or forest slums, and had generally a good time a zamorochivaniye of people.
It is the best of all for person with wood goblin not to meet. He is in different types, being in essence spirit wingless, incorporeal and hornless. His favourite appearance - the decrepit old man, suddenly neither from that - nor from this arising before the traveler in the wood. He can act and in absentia, letting out the wild, directing horror cries why the person goes astray and then long strays. Happy that the joke was successful, the wood goblin heart-rendingly laughs loudly and claps that, undoubtedly, doesn't add joy to got lost. Against these evil intrigues in the people the following method was considered as the only means: having found out that ways roads are lost, it is necessary to turn out and put all clothes on the wrong side - and then charms vanish, and the unfortunate traveler manages to leave the terrible wood...