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Mavka will turn into an angel and will ascend to heaven, as is the case for an innocent soul who has suffered from human indifference. It will repent of what it has done in the form of unclean power and will receive forgiveness.To the person who will baptize the creature, she will help throughout his or her life.

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Only a creature that has been among the unclean for less than seven years can be released. Each Mavka wishes to find peace, but it is inaccessible to it until it is christened. The spirit needs to be sprinkled on it and say: I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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In summer they swim in the night hours on the surface of rivers, springs and lakes and splash with water, while during Mermaid Week they run through fields with a sad cry: "my mother gave birth, unbaptized buried me!"

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T hey look like beautiful tall girls with long hair, but they only looked like people from the front. Their bodies were frightening. There was a hole in the back through which you could see their insides, including their shattering hearts.

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They had very small feet, traces that could be mistaken for children's feet. And they also loved to dance with roundelays. It was possible to meet mavkas in the forest.

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In fiction, mavka rarely appeared. The most famous is the poem by A.N. Tolstoy, which is called "The Mavka".

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IT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!!!

You can only protect yourself with amulets, crosses and certain herbs.

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These restless spirits had different names from one people to another, which boiled down to one Pra-Indo-European root *nau*, meaning       literally a dead body.

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These creatures are girls who died in the mermaid week, or young children who died without baptism or were strangled by their mothers.

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The Mavka can take the form of a black bird. They can also cause storms, rain and hail, and make the river spill by flooding pastures and crops. They run and swim fast - no animal can overtake them, and they can also draw life out of people.

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The mavka's attitude towards humans is ambiguous.  According to one belief, these are supernatural creatures associated with fertility, and they are shy and secretive, but there are many more references to where the mavka is a demonic creature that can lure people into the forest. It is particularly common for mavkas to be lured by men's beauty and sweet speeches, to be tickled to death or drowned in the river.