Meditation for August 7th, 2016
The Lesser Monster Among Us
There are many folklore stories from Europe that many believe to be myths. There are the major monsters that even haunt us to this day like the vampire, werewolf, the undead and golems. There are many other monsters that are less than popular, and some of these monsters walk among us.
Here are some you may know from the Slavic folklore.
Ovinnik
This little skinny guy loves fire, destroying gardens and speed metal. They are the uber skinny metal heads wearing denim vests with no shirt under. They live at night with stringy thin long hair and patchy shitty beards.
They are metal vegans. They will viciously attack you for enjoying a steak or even a plant that an animal was fucked with an animal. They will burn your vegetable garden if they think you aren’t worthy.
Careful, Ovinnik love fire. To keep them from burning your raised vegetable bed, slaughter a chicken.
Leshy
These are giants who live in the woods. They are across of a hippy and a redneck. They might listen to the dead and dabble in tinctures, but they love to hunt, fish and fight.
Leshy love to confuse other hunters and hikers by making the trees move and the trails disappear. They will make it rain to ruin campers weekends. They can even make the sun go down faster.
Leshy cast no shadow, so even though they are over 6 feet, you might not know one is standing right by you. You’ll see them a lot at taverns near popular hunting spots drinking cans of beer alone.
Domovoi
These are tree spirits that come with the house if the wood was used to build the house. They are usually someone’s friend that needed a couch to stay on for a night or two but is now there four months later.
They spend a lot of time cleaning things so it doesn’t seem too bad that they are there until they feel they are being taken for granted.
Then they leave and talk mad shit about you across the whole world or they will destroy your house.
So be grateful for a Domovoi, for it might destroy your place and then you can’t get your deposit.
Kikimora
These are very similar to the Domovoi, but much wilder. They break things but never admit to it. They will borrow your things and don’t admit to borrowing it and you never see the thug again.
They usually are actually your roommate, so you can’t just easily kick them out. You have to deal with their messes while they criticize your messes.
They will even borrow your sex toys and put them back without you knowing.
Iikhos
These are ghosts of despair. Just talking to one makes you feel that all of life – especially the things you are into – is pointless. They are ugly creatures that can take the form of a beautiful human that attracts you and then sucks all hope and passion out of you.
The rock scene is full of these demons. They dress well and seem to be very accepted by the scene, and this will be part of the bait that you will fall for.
Most of the victims of the Likhos are called wives or husbands.
Rusalka
These beautiful creatures have one goal with you; to bankrupt you financially, emotionally and spiritually. Unlike the Likhos who targets one pray at a time, these sirens try and take as many victims down at the same time.
They love to play people off each other in jealousy and suspicion. They isolate a victim for long enough to be friendless after releasing them.
These creatures feed on the ego and uncertainties of most human beings.
Koschei the Deathless
These are the old guys that continue to show up to rock shows in their rock vests and long grey hair. To a young man, this seems cool for an older guy to not give up on rock, but to the Koschei, this is unbearable to show up night after night and just be unsatisfied with life because rock and roll does nothing for others.
They either think this is the only way to get laid or the only way they can keep their much younger girlfriends.
A Koschei is hard to kill, and many have tried, but the only way to kill a Deathless is to find his soul, which he has detached from his body and put into a single needle. This needle is hidden in an egg, which is in a duck, which is in a hare, which is in a chest, which is buried under a green oak on the legendary island of Buyan.
Or he will die of alcoholism.
Baba Yaga
These are the old women that show up at the shows. They are bitter and feel that this is the only place where she can find her pray: young impressionable young rockers. She will eat them.
You think these young men have gone off to Ashville, Austin, Boston or Oakland, but they have been digested by the cranky lady at the hardcore show in the basement of a punk house.
The Gamayun
These are people that swear things are going to shit in a hand basket unless something drastic changes. You will be at a show or a bar or at the grocery store and some small talk will equal getting the entire future prophesied unless we vote for a third party candidate or we do away with taxes.
They are actually part bird under heir human disguise, so that’s why they sound shrill and crazy.
Don’t humor them. They’ve been humored for far too long, so by telling them they are crazy they maybe able to rest and turn into a bird and fly away.