unquiet female water spirit
Rusalka
'I come from dying. When girls or women die due to an
unnatural cause, or they've lived a very bad life,
they turn into spirits that cannot find their rest in
the other world. So we are bound between the world of
the real people and the world of the dead people. '
Violetta Korbina, playing a rusalka river spirit at
Kupala in Brighton (click photo for
video).
Rusalky dwell in the rivers, but emerge
onto land in Rusalnyi Week. The
forests are haunted by mavky.