Celestial Brunaidh

Household spirits who help people or protect the home.

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Bannik

A bathhouse spirit appearing to be older, naked, and small, living in the liminal spaces of the bathhouses. They wear birch leaves left behind by brooms and cleanse the bathhouse, protecting those who use it. They can appear as other people they have seen if they are afraid. They can also hide among the stones or coals heating the bathhouse. The bathhouses in their area are often used for divination or giving birth, and they help with both. They like offerings of black hens buried under their thresholds, fir branches, water, and soap. At the end of the night, they always take the last bath. They favor the polite. They can predict the future if someone waits in the half-opened door of the bathhouse, scratching their back for danger and gently stroking it for good futures. They have strong hands and might hurl hot water or even strangle a foe trying to harm the bathhouse.

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Brownie

Fairies who do work around the house. Brownies range from 6" to 4' tall. They have brown skin and hairy bodies. They have many charms to help around the house, and there are consequences if they break these rules. They are low-ranking in Faerie.

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Domovoy

Domovoys (female domania) are household spirits who are attuned to the hearth or stove of a family's home. Domovoys are 3' to 4' tall spirits covered in coarse hair that is either grey, white, or black. They can take the shape of a cat, dog, snake, rat, or bear. Many have small horns or tails. Their beard or braids are usually unkempt.

Domovoys have many powers. Any house they are in, they are its owner. They connect to the ancestors of any family living in the house, and they draw power from anyone who built the home. They can take the form of any member of the family, any ancestor, or anyone who helped build it.

They can see in the dark by making their eyes flash. If a family stays in the home for a year and a day, the domovoy can make a prediction once a year about their deaths. If one is near death, they can appear to them and soothe them (or terrify them, if they so choose).

Domovoys can create protecting wards over a house. Depending on the needs of the family and what offerings they make, the domovoy make create wards against disease, disaster, theft, fire, war, or other major events. If the house has children or animals, they can give special protections to them.

They can also provide charms that help with domestic tasks, especially those involving the hearth or stove. Their favorite is to make bread rise easier. They are also very fond of animals and will create charms to care for them, such as charms to brush horses clean or make sure dogs or cats are fed. They can also calm upset animals with a whisper.

Domovoys can make noises in the house, touch people without being near them, and vanish behind the stove or hearth. Any threshold in the house can be used to teleport to any other threshold in the house.

When angered at the family staying in the house, they can unleash chaos. They can move objects around in the night, open and close doors or windows at will, cause banging on the walls, pull people's hair or beards, shatter dishes from a distance, make animals sick or cause them to refuse to eat, sour milk, tangle animal hair, or cause sleep paralysis.

If their anger is not assuaged, they will leave the house and seek another, taking all their protections with them. Within a year and a day, the house will fall to fire, pestilence, robbery or burglary, war, or some other calamity.

Domovoys require payment for staying in their house. The most important is a slice of bread with salt, the symbols of hospitality. This must be wrapped in white cloth and placed in the domovoy's sleeping spot behind the stove or hearth. This must be done once a month. Every week, they require smaller offerings: porridge (such as kasha) or milk, kind words, buttons, beads, shiny objects, scraps of colorful fabric. Each night, someone in the house must say,"Dedushka Domovoy, accept our gift, protect our household, keep our family in health."

If they have been offended, it must be made up for by sacrificing a rooster at midnight then sprinkling its blood around the corners of the common room and courtyard. If the house is brand new or being moved to, the family must welcome the domovoy with a special ritual. On the day of the move, an older member of the family must heat the stove or hearth one last time. They will scrape the coals and cinders into a clean iron pan or old boot. They will cover that witha white napkin, then turn to face the spot behind the stove where the domovoy lives. They will say, "Domovoy, Domovoy, do not stay here. Come with us to our new home." Then they will go to the new home where other family members wait with bread and salt at the gate. Before anyone enters, a cat or other pet must be allowed in, if possible. They move the coals, bread, and salt to the new stove or hearth. In the new house, they also open the doors and windows at midnight and shout, "Khozyain, khozyain, come with us!"

If they do not perform the ritual, both the old house and the new one will suffer.

Domovoy are the owners of the home. They allow families to stay in exchange for offerings. But after some time, they connect to the family and come to be protectors are caretakers for them. They share the family's happy times and sad. They will protect the family from other spirits. The families will keep small statues of their domovoy as gestures of affection. They bow and honor the domovoy as a beloved family member. Domovoy are especially fond of horses, whom they will go out of their way to help with.

Most families only refer to domovoy with terms of respect, using the domovoy's name or species name only in times of crisis. Some common titles include dedushka (grandfather), khozyain (master), domozhil (house-dweller), susedko (neigbor), batanuskha (father, diminutive), lizen (licker), zhirovik (fat one), domovyk, damavik, domowik, or deedek.

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Jagaubis

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Jana

3' tall fairies who weave anything you need out of golden looms. They are bringers of good luck and helpers of anyone in need. Their charms are about providing for others.

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Nisse, Tomte, or Tonttu

House spirits wearing brimless red caps, grey clothing, short breeches, jackets, and ordinary shoes. Some have only one eye. They mostly appear human, but very small. Many wear beards. They age quickly and have wizened faces at maturity. They do chores around the house, stables, or farm. If they are not rewarded on yuletide with porridge with butter and beer, they will leave the house, and at other times of the year, they expect mittens, shoes, tobacco, wadmal (coarse wool), clods of dirt, and other odd offerings. Many in their culture are called Niels or Nicholas. They often give gifts to random oppressed families around yuletide. They often work on farms, live in mounds, cleared lots to build on, protect homes, grow trees, pull wagons and ploughs magically, play fun games with the family, help with carpentry, help plan sites for towns, help with chores, help breed animals, help with the harvest, restore the souls of the most exploited, help with pets or domesticated animals, fill in for those who have gone on a journey, and otherwise help and oppressed family cope with their unpaid labors. Some rare nisse will be able to turn into a goat, horse, or goose. They may compel those who mistreat them into engaging in dangerous activities, releasing animals into the wild, tripping or falling, giving fairylocks to livestock, sealing into parts of the house or farm, or otherwise exacting revenge. Mistreatment includes eating the offerings meant for them, mocking the work they do, ignoring them, or harming them directly.

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