Sources do not provide a narrative cosmogonic origin for Blud. In the materials available, Blud appears as a named agent within Slavic mythological vocabulary—described in one source as "one of the Slavic fairies" and as an "evil-deity"—and simultaneously as a term in ecclesiastical moral language. The dual register in which the term appears (folk belief about a wandering-causing being and clerical usage for sexual immorality) is the only attested origin context in the cited source: Blud arises as both a folk explanation for becoming physically lost and as a theological explanation for illicit desire, which clerics claimed came from the Devil.
The provided source gives no physical description of Blud. The only classificatory detail is that it is called "one of the Slavic fairies" and an "evil-deity" in that source; beyond these labels, no form, size, gender, dress, or other visible traits are recorded in the available text.
According to the source, Blud's primary attributed ability is to cause disorientation, specifically to lead a person "aimlessly around and round." In clerical language the same word denotes illicit sexual desire (fornication, adultery), which church writers treated as originating from the Devil; thus Blud functions both as a folk agent producing literal wandering and as a conceptual cause of moral/sexual deviation in ecclesiastical discourse. No additional powers, longevity, or routine behaviors are documented in the cited material.
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- [1]Blud. Wikipedia: 'Blud ... is one of the Slavic fairies in Slavic mythology, is an evil-deity that causes disorientation and leads a person aimlessly around and round.' Also: 'The term also refers to illicit fornication, the desire for which Slavic clerics claimed to come from the Devil.' and 'Blud in the Russian language means: debauchery, adultery and deviation from the straight path in the literal and figurative sense.'wiki