Kuat

The master spirit of the water of the mythology of the peoples of Komi, water.

He is able to be in human form (tall men with long dark green silt hair, dressed in green Kaftan, able to go ashore at will, mighty man with a white beard, and, depending on the weather: rainy, rainy days he appears as a brunette with dark eyes and a gaunt face, and the Sunny weather turns into a blonde with cheerful blue eyes and a white face), the shape of a fish (a very big pike) and man-fish (man in a fish's tail). It was thought that the blood in the water blue color (whereas Russian tradition, blue blood from the Goblin). Sometimes it was thought that water could appear in the guise of a woman sitting on the shore and rasschityvaet long hair. Typically, this meeting meant nothing to observe, but it is rarely perceived as a bad sign (for example, saw soon's wife died). In the literature found only one mention of the fact that women carry off water men for carnal pleasures and instead return the birch of the statue.

It was believed that the water-live in the underwater world in the usual peasant huts, cows and horses. Their cattle they sometimes grazed on the surface of the earth, on the banks of rivers and lakes.

Cow water was different from the usual that left no traces and did not got rid of them the dew. If anyone has managed to quietly get close to the herd of cows and throw one of them on a neck cross, all cows were immersed in water, and she stayed and became the property of the owner of the cross. Cow water was very ugolive, but on the ground I felt only the bulls and their breed continued.

Horse water spirits had a black-and-white and red-and-white coloring, they allegedly saw grazing on the shore of the lake in which they were immersed, being suganami.

Water strictly related to the rules and norms of commercial morality, punishing their violation deprivation of prey.

Sometimes the owners of the reservoirs, offended, they could leave, having gone along with the water (numerous tundra lakes levels often located at different heights. When erosion jumper between two such nearby lakes water from one natural reservoir is poured into the other).

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