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Devil Boruta
Devil Boruta ( ) is a fictional character from Polish mythology, folklore and literature, who is associated with the Polish town of Łęczyca. The character is the transformation of the pagan Slavic leshy in post-Christianization times. Boruta is also referred to as błotnik, a swamp spirit. He was usually considered to be a nobleman, and accordingly, he was usually busy with corrupting nobles, leaving other social classes to other devils - like Rokita the devil from the same region, who more often tempted peasants. Zygmunt Gloger and some other ethnologists believed that dressing Boruta as a nobleman is fakelore produced in the 19th century and reintroduced into folklore.
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Devil Boruta ( ) is a fictional character from Polish mythology, folklore and literature, who is associated with the Polish town of Łęczyca. The character is the transformation of the pagan Slavic leshy in post-Christianization times. Boruta is also referred to as błotnik, a swamp spirit. He was usually considered to be a nobleman, and accordingly, he was usually busy with corrupting nobles, leaving other social classes to other devils - like Rokita the devil from the same region, who more often tempted peasants. Zygmunt Gloger and some other ethnologists believed that dressing Boruta as a nobleman is fakelore produced in the 19th century and reintroduced into folklore.
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