Vila

In the folklore of the Southern Slavs and Slovaks, a female mythological being endowed mainly with positive properties. She can, however, take revenge on a person for the harm done to her. They look like slender charming (rarely ugly) girls with long (sometimes to the ground) loose hair and wings. They are dressed in long magical dresses or veils, under which they hide their legs with hooves. 

They can heal, predict death, but they themselves are not immortal. In the West Slavic territories, pitchforks are described as dead girls who cannot rest and are capable of harming those who offended them during their lifetime. 

The nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine described the wilies as ghost dancers of girls who died before the wedding. They can meet at night and disappear at dawn. Dressed in a wedding dress, with wreaths and rings. If they meet a young man on the high road at night, they involve him with laughter and charm in a dance, and the dancer dies.

Pitchforks could fly like birds, lived in the mountains. They owned wells and lakes, had the ability to "lock up" water. If you take away their wings, they lose the ability to fly and become simple women. This was often used by young men. They took the wings from the pitchfork, and then took them as wives. But such a marriage never ended well. Sooner or later, by deception and cunning, vila lured her wings back and flew away. Children born in such a marriage often remained abandoned to their father. But sometimes the vila-mother could take the child with her.

According to Bulgarian beliefs, pitchforks appear mainly in spring and summer, sometimes from the Annunciation to Exaltation, love big holidays, especially Easter.