Knotweed

The embodiment of fertility from East Slavic mythology.

In some places, peasants imagined a Knotweed in the form of a white curly-haired man who walks around the field (sometimes together with God and Paradise). He was considered the spirit of prosperity and wealth.

P. V. Shane considered Sporysh a pagan god on the basis of the sparyshev (district) Belarusian songs recorded by him, but other researchers (D. Kravchenko) do not agree with this interpretation and consider Sporysh a product of "cabinet mythology".