(Consequently, fishermen, millers, and also beekeepers make sacrifices to calm him down.) He frequently drags people into his underwater dwelling to serve him as slaves. When he gets angry, the vodyanoy breaks levees, floods mills, and drowns people and animals. The local drownings are said to be the work of the vodyanoy (or rusalkas). Consequently, he is often called "grandfather" or "ancestor" by local people. Usually he rides along its river on a half-sunken log, making heavy splashes. He has webbed feet instead of hands, a fish tail, and eyes that burn like hot embers. ![]() Vodyanoy is said to appear as a naked old man with a frog's face, greenish beard and long hair, with his body covered in algae and mud, usually covered in black fish scales. ![]() Vodnik also called Vodyanoy in Russian (Cyrillic: водяно́й IPA: vədʲɪˈnoj), literally "watery"), vadzianik in Belarusian (Cyrillic: вадзянік), Ukrainian vodianyk (Cyrillic: водяно́й in Polish, wodnik in Slovak, wodnik in Polish), wodnik in Polish and wodnik in Polish), vodnik in Bulgarian and Macedonian (Cyrillic: водник), vodanoj in Croatian, povodni mož in Slovenian and vodenjak in Serbian (Cyrillic: водењак) It is an aquatic spirit from Slavic folklore.
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