The body is the field. Dry soil cracked the way a field cracks in drought, with the crop growing where hair would be, and one pale eye that does not match the other. He belongs to noon and to open ground.
Basis: Slavic accounts of the field spirit · AI-generated
About the Polevik
The owner of the open field, whose height rises and falls with the standing grain, and who punishes exactly the people the noon spirit does not.
Linda J. Ivanits, Russian Folk Belief (1989)The standard English survey of the Russian village spirits, including the field spirits and the offerings made to them.
Marina N. Vlasova, Novaya abevega russkikh sueveriy (A New Alphabet of Russian Superstitions) (1995)Russian-language dictionary of folk belief; the source behind most of the regional detail in circulation about field spirits.
