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Visual depiction of Rusalka

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Vol. II · Polytheism · death

Rusalka

Slavic restless water spirit


the ghost of a drowned young woman rising from a lake at night, her long wet hair tangling around those she pulls below

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
death

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.