
Leshy, woodsman, forest Leshakov, forester, Lesun, forest grandfather, Forest righteous dikonky peasant, puschevik, wolf shepherd sometimes even just a timber - a supernatural being of Slavic traditions and Russian fairy tales. Place of residence of the spirit - a deaf forest dwellers, but sometimes a wasteland. However, this spirit lives in the woods is not constant, but only in the warmer months. "At Yerofei" - considered the peasants, - "the forest goblins to part." On this day (October 17) the spirit falls to the ground, where the winters until spring, but before hibernation devil rages: raises a storm, breaking trees, dispersing animals...