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- Instance of
- familiar
- Part of
- Russian folklore
- Image
- Domovoi Bilibin.jpg
- Said to be same as
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- native label
- Домовик
- domain of saint or deity
- home
- Commons category
- Domovyk
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- worshipped by
- Slavic mythology
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- Etymology and belief
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- Other household deities
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thumb|upright=1.3|Domovoy, by Ivan Bilibin (1934)
In the Slavic religious tradition, Domovoy (, literally "[the one] of the household"; also spelled Domovoi, Domovoj, and known as , (Domovik), (Domovyk) and (Damavik)) is the household spirit of a given kin. According to the Russian folklorist E. G. Kagarov, the Domovoy is a personification of the supreme Rod in the microcosm of kinship. Sometimes he has a female counterpart, Domania, the goddess of the household, though he is most often a single god. The Domovoy expresses himself as a number of other spirits of the household in its different functions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “domovoi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.