Unclean force (Russian: не́чисть, нечистики, не́жить (undead)) is Slavs collective name of otherworldly forces and creatures: evil spirits, chorts, demons, werewolves and the undead — Domovoy, Polevik, Vodyanoy, Leshy, rusalka, kikimora and other.[1][2][3][4] Common to all of them is belonging to the "unclean", "negative", "out of this world", the otherworldly world and their malevolence towards people.[3]
Shepherds, millers, blacksmiths, witches and sorcerers were suspected of having ties with evil forces.[5]
^Нечистая сила / Svetlana Tolstaya // Slavic Mythology: Encyclopedic Dictionary / editorial board: Svetlana Tolstaya (executive editor), Tatiana Agapkina, Olga Belova, Lyudmila Vinogradova, Vladimir Petrukhin; Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. — 2nd edition. — Moscow: International Relations, 2002. — p. 319–321. — ISBN 5-7133-1069-8
^Nikolai Nikiforovsky Нечистики : Свод простонародных в Витебской Белоруссии сказаний о нечистой силе. — Vilna: Н. Мац и Ко, 1907.
^ abНечистая сила, нечисть / Svetlana Tolstaya // Mythological Dictionary / editor-in-chief Yeleazar Meletinsky — Moscow: Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1990. — p. 388–389. — ISBN 5-85270-032-0
^Нежилое: Нежить // Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language in 4 Volumes. / author-compiler Vladimir Dal — 2nd ed. — Saint Petersburg: Типография М. О. Вольфа, 1881. — V. 2. — p. 533.
^Lyudmila Vinogradova Кто вселяется в бесноватого? // Миф в культуре: человек — не-человек / editor Lyudmila Sofronova, Lyudmila Titova — Moscow: Indrik, 2000. — p. 33–46. — ISBN 5-85759-106-6
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