Category:Rusalki

Articles relating to the rusalki, their counterparts, and their depictions. They are typically feminine entities in Slavic folklore, often malicious toward mankind and frequently associated with water, with counterparts in other parts of Europe, such as the French Melusine and the Germanic Nixie. Folklorists have proposed a variety of origins for the entities, including that they may originally stem from Slavic paganism, where they may have been seen as benevolent spirits.