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Old Belief
← Zmora
Long iron knife with a riveted wooden handle lying on a creased white sheet beside a pillow in weak light

the knife under the pillow

Iron under the pillow, a scythe blade, a broom across the door. The remedies are the standard Slavic defences, applied to a bed.

Basis: Recorded protective practice · AI-generated

More of this creature

Empty wooden bed with rumpled white linen thrown back in a dim blue-grey room before dawn, a small crucifix on the wall above it and boots on the floorthe bed before dawn →Close view of an iron keyhole plate and latch on a near-black plank door, warm light filling the keyhole from the far sidethe keyhole at night →