Published on January 6, 2023
Life
- The living grandfather
- Zhytsen
- Zhitnaya baba
Regions of expansion
Belarus
Description
The spirit is the owner of the field among Belarusians. His female version is a peasant woman. This is the ancient Belarusian god of fertility and autumn.
He looks like a little old man with a long beard. The inhabitant walks through the fields and makes sure that the harvest in the fields is well harvested. The inhabitant found the badly threshed ears thrown, collected them in sheaves and transferred them to the plots of more careful owners.
It has been described (and probably invented) a folklorist Pavel Shpilevsky (Drevlyansky).
