2011-May
In Slavic mythology, vodyanoy (Russian); vodník (Czech and Slovak); vodyanyk (Ukraine) Wassermann (German) is a water spirit. He may appear to be a naked man with a pot belly (and bald-headed) wearing a hat and belt of reeds and rushes, conflicting with other accounts ascribing him green hair and a long green beard. The varying look has been attributed in commentary to his shape-shifting ability. When angered, the vodyanoy breaks dams, washes down water mills, and drowns people and animals. Consequently, fishermen, millers, and also bee-keepers make sacrifices to appease him. Thevodyanoy would sometimes drag people down to his underwater dwelling to serve him as slaves
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