Fornication

A character of Ukrainian, Russian and Polish mythology. Some kind of force that knocks you off the road and makes you lose your way, walk in circles. Often he was presented as something invisible, but sometimes he could appear in the form of an animal or a person.

Often fornication was presented as something invisible and non-personalized, but at the same time real, but sometimes it could appear in the form of an animal or a person.

According to the epics, a person who is under the influence of fornication is not able to orient himself on the terrain in which he finds himself, and can wander for a long time, walking in circles, sometimes even in a small space. It's as if insurmountable obstacles appear in front of him, or he just becomes unwell and loses all his bearings. Fornication leads a person until he finds himself in some impassable place. In some cases, a lost person may die.