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This section contains information about phenomena that are generally believed to have a supernatural, mystical nature, and the very existence of which is currently in doubt.Phenomena Hierarchy

Knotweed

Added	Wed, 11/01/2023
Hierarchy	Phenomena Неизвестные существа Spirits Спорыш
Другие названия	Sparysh Ergot
Область распространения	Belarus Russia Ukraine
Характерные признаки	→ → → →
Sources	ru.wikipedia.org bibliotekar.ru traumlibrary.ru mifolog.ru wikiwand.com

The embodiment of fertility from East Slavic mythology.

In some places, peasants imagined a Knotweed in the form of a white curly-haired man who walks around the field (sometimes together with God and Paradise). He was considered the spirit of prosperity and wealth.

P. V. Shane considered Sporysh a pagan god on the basis of the sparyshev (district) Belarusian songs recorded by him, but other researchers (D. Kravchenko) do not agree with this interpretation and consider Sporysh a product of "cabinet mythology".

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