Vubar

An evil spirit in Chuvash mythology.

The Vubar appears at night and, taking the form of pets, a fiery snake or a person, falls on sleeping people, causing suffocation and nightmares. At the same time, vubar crushes men in the guise of a girl, and women in the guise of a man. Usually he does not come to everyone, but to those to whom he has already come once.

Old witches turn into these creatures, which thereby improve their health. A sleeping person cannot move and say anything at the same time.

The vubar not only suffocates people in their sleep, but can also bring upon them damage and a serious illness called "vupărlă hayar" ("the evil of the vubar").

He can harm not only a person, but even sticks to a calf lying near the mother.

Vubar becomes the cause of eclipses: where the dark part is already eaten.