Rusalka
Country of Origin: Ukraine/Slavic Being Type: Water Nymph Ghost
Power Stats
Aggression
7/10
Magic Abilities
9/10
Physical Power
5/10
Origin Backstory
Rusalki are vengeful spirits of drowned women or unbaptized girls in Slavic (Ukrainian) folklore, luring men to death with enchanting song and beauty in rivers and lakes. They dance in fields during Rusalka Week.
Key Features
- •Pale beautiful drowned women
- •Tickles to death
- •Wet hair/clothing
- •Haunts lakes/rivers
- •Vengeful or playful
Lore
Rusalka are tragic and dangerous water spirits in Ukrainian and broader Slavic folklore, the ghosts of young women who drowned (often by suicide or murder). Pale and beautiful with long wet hair, they lure men with hypnotic songs to drown or tickle them to death, emerging during spring to dance, embodying themes of betrayal, revenge, and the seductive peril of water.