entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_SLAV_BABA_YAGA,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"The ambivalent witch of East-Slavic folktales who lives in a hut on hen's legs, flies in a mortar, and acts as both threat and helper to the hero."
ENT_SLAV_BANNIK,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"The spirit of the bathhouse (banya) in East-Slavic belief, who must be appeased and can scald bathers who offend him."
ENT_SLAV_BELOBOG,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"RECONSTRUCTED: the 'white god' posited as a benevolent counterpart to Chernobog; not attested in any medieval source, a scholarly/toponymic inference."
ENT_SLAV_DAZBOG,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,Brückner (1918) pp. 96-105: Dažbog solar function and name etymology.
ENT_SLAV_DEVANA,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,A goddess of the hunt (Dziewanna) named by late-medieval Polish chroniclers (Długosz) who equated her with Diana; authenticity debated as a possible learned interpretatio.
ENT_SLAV_DOLA,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"The personification of an individual's allotted fate or fortune in Slavic folk belief, attached at birth; its negative counterpart is Nedola."
ENT_SLAV_DOMOVOI,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"The tutelary house spirit of East-Slavic folk belief, dwelling behind the stove and protecting the household and its livestock if respected."
ENT_SLAV_FOLK_SPIRITS,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"Collective of lower mythological beings of East-Slavic folk belief (house, water, forest, and field spirits) documented in the ethnographic record."
ENT_SLAV_JARILO,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"A spring fertility figure of the seasonal folk cult whose effigy was carried and ritually 'buried', reconstructed as the dying-and-rising counterpart to Marzanna."
ENT_SLAV_KHORS,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,Brückner (1918) pp. 120-125: Khors as Iranian-derived solar deity.
ENT_SLAV_KIKIMORA,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"A female household spirit associated with the stove and spinning, who troubles a disorderly home with nighttime noises."
ENT_SLAV_KOSCHEI,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,An immortal sorcerer-villain of East-Slavic folktales who abducts the hero's bride and cannot die because his death is hidden in a needle inside an egg.
ENT_SLAV_KUPALA,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,The personification of the midsummer (St John's Eve) festival of fire and water; treated in some sources as a folk personification of the rite.
ENT_SLAV_LADA,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,DISPUTED: a putative goddess of love and marriage; Brückner and later scholarship argue she is a personification mistakenly derived from a wedding-song refrain ('lado').
ENT_SLAV_LESHY,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"The master spirit of the forest in East-Slavic belief, who guards the woodland and its animals and is known for leading travelers astray."
ENT_SLAV_MARZANNA,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"Goddess or personification of death and winter (Morana/Morena), whose effigy is ritually drowned or burned at winter's end in Slavic seasonal custom."
ENT_SLAV_MOKOSH,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,Brückner (1918) pp. 130-138: Mokosh as spinning fate-goddess; ecclesiastical prohibitions confirm ongoing worship.
ENT_SLAV_PANTHEON,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"Collective grouping the principal deities of the Slavs known from the East-Slavic Primary Chronicle and the West-Slavic temple cults of Arkona, Szczecin, and Rethra."
ENT_SLAV_PERUN,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"Brückner (1918) pp. 67-80: Perun etymology, thunder function, Perun-Veles myth reconstruction."
ENT_SLAV_POLEVIK,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"A field spirit who inhabits cultivated land and may help or punish field-workers, especially those who sleep in the fields at midday."
ENT_SLAV_ROD,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,Brückner (1918) pp. 160-170: Rod as birth/fate deity paired with Rozhanitsy; ecclesiastical prohibition sources.
ENT_SLAV_ROZHANITSY,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"Female birth-and-fate spirits invoked together with Rod, repeatedly condemned in medieval East-Slavic anti-pagan homilies for childbirth offerings."
ENT_SLAV_RUSALKA,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"A female water spirit, commonly the restless soul of a drowned or unbaptized woman, who haunts rivers and woods especially during Rusalka Week."
ENT_SLAV_SIMARGL,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,Brückner (1918) pp. 111-115: Simargl; Iranian Simurgh connection; uncertain Slavic function.
ENT_SLAV_STRIBOG,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,Brückner (1918) pp. 106-110: Stribog as wind deity.
ENT_SLAV_SVAROG,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,Brückner (1918) pp. 85-95: Svarog fire/sky deity; name etymology and Svarozhich attestation at Rethra.
ENT_SLAV_VELES,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,Brückner (1918) pp. 138-155: Veles/Volos cattle deity; Perun-Veles mythological opposition.
ENT_SLAV_VODYANOY,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,A malevolent male water spirit of East-Slavic folklore who rules ponds and rivers and is blamed for drownings.
ENT_SLAV_ZMEY_GORYNYCH,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,scholarly attestation,"The multi-headed fire-breathing dragon of East-Slavic byliny and folktales, slain by heroes such as Dobrynya Nikitich."