drowner
Levača (Podravina), Croatia, 2013.
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Drowner is a Water spirits servant, a drowned swimmer or a fisherman whose soul is forever captured in a clay pot. To save themselves from being drowned by a Water spirit people believed that it is not good to swim in the early morning or late evening, especially not during noon, when church bells ring, or in places heavily covered in water vegetation. Fishermen have seen Water spirits green hand grabbing the sides of their boats, and when that happens, defense is to beat it with an oar and run away as fast as you can. When on land drowner looks like a small child, dressed in green with a pointy hat on his head.