Sources provided do not record a mythological cosmogonic origin or genealogical tale for the Polevik. Folkloric summaries consistently treat the Polevik as an animate presence of the field — a localized spirit or personification bound to arable land and the cultivated landscape rather than a named progeny of deities or ghosts. No traditional origin narrative or etymology beyond the name form as recorded in sources is supplied in the available material.
Traditional summaries describe Polevik as a field-tied humanoid often called deformed or dwarf-like in appearance, with grass-like hair (reports include 'grass instead of hair' or 'green hair') and different-coloured (bicolored) eyes. They are said to wear either all-black or all-white clothing in many accounts. Some physical details (for example, height-changing to match grasses, whirlwinds or flame-sparks accompanying appearance) appear only in modern fandom or gaming summaries and are treated in the sources as later or uncertain additions rather than established traditional features.
Polevik is reported to lead people astray in fields, to give diseases to those it succeeds in misleading, and to harm or even kill labourers found sleeping in the fields after drinking; sources specifically link murder to a person who 'falls asleep on the job after drinking.' Accounts also state Polevik may 'ride over' sleeping people with horses. Some modern summaries add a guardian or protective aspect (describing Polevik as a guardian of fields and crops) but this role is inconsistent across sources and appears primarily in later adaptations.
Weaknesses
- conditionvulnerability of sleeping drunk workers
Wards
- ritualsecret ditch-offering of two eggs, a rooster, a toad, and a crow
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Bald Mountain (Slavic)
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Geira
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Hag
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Community Record
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- [2]Polevik — Megami Tensei Wiki (Fandom). Megami Tensei Wiki: Polevikwiki
- [3]Polevik — Non-alien Creatures Wiki (Fandom). Non-alien Creatures Wiki: Polevikwiki
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