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Old Belief
← Dvorovoi
Whole dark rye loaf with coarse salt heaped in a hollow in its crust, set on a white cloth on a byre window sill with snow outside

bread and salt in the byre

The same offering as the house spirit's, moved to the animals' building — bread, salt, a white cloth.

Basis: Offering practice for the yard spirit · AI-generated

More of this creature

Snow-covered farmyard at first light, a roofed stone well on one side and a log byre with its door open on the other, rail fence and village roofs beyondthe yard at first light →Pale woollen blanket with a dark sweat stain across it, hung over the rail of an empty stall, rope coiled on the post and straw on the floorthe horse that sweats at night →