In the Slavic religious tradition, Domovoy (Russian: Домовой, literally "[the one] of the household"; also spelled Domovoi, Domovoj, and known as Polish: Domowik, Serbian: Домовик (Domovik), Ukrainian: Домовик (Domovyk) and Belarusian: Дамавік (Damavik) is the household spirit of a given kin. They are deified progenitors, that is to say the fountainhead ancestors of the kin.[2] According to the Russian folklorist E. G. Kagarov, the Domovoy is a personification of the supreme Rod in the microcosm of kinship.[3] Sometimes he has a female counterpart, Domania, the goddess of the household,[4] though he is most often a single god.[5] The Domovoy expresses himself as a number of other spirits of the household in its different functions.[6]
- ^ MeisterDrucke. "Domovoi, 1934 by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (#778598)". MeisterDrucke. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
- ^ Máchal 1918, p. 240.
- ^ Ivanits 1989, p. 14.
- ^ Mathieu-Colas 2017.
- ^ Máchal 1918, p. 241.
- ^ Ivanits 1989, p. 61.