Domovoy, which literally translates to — (the one) of the household — is the domestic spirit of a particular family in the Slavic religious tradition. They are venerated ancestors, or, to put it another way, the founding forebears of the kin. The Domovoy is a manifestation of the ultimate Rod in the smaller unit of kinship, according to Russian folklorist E. G. Kagarov. Though he is typically a single god, he occasionally has a female counterpart in the form of Domania, the goddess of the ho ... (Read More)