Old Belief
← Vodyanoy
Bald heavy-set old man waist-deep in a still millpond at dusk, reeds at his belt

old man of the millpond

Afanasyev's description is deliberately unglamorous: a naked, bald old man with a large paunch and a swollen face. Máchal adds a cap and belt woven from reeds and rushes. This is the figure a miller expected to deal with, not a sea god.

Basis: Afanasyev 1868; Máchal 1918 · AI-generated

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