Nocturnal

In Slavic mythology, these are demons of nightmares, female night spirits, hostile towards people. Moths attack children preparing to go to bed, causing them anxiety and causing insomnia.

In eastern Serbia, moths were represented as ugly women in black. According to Croatian beliefs, nocturnals are long—haired women with claws on their fingers. In Poland, they could look like birds or bats. In western Belarus (Slonimsky povet) they believed that the beginning could take the form of a black furry worm.