Blud

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Blud (/bluːd/ BL-OOH-D; Ukrainian: Блуд, Russian: Блуд), one of the Slavic fairies in Slavic mythology, is an evil-deity that causes disorientation and leads a person aimlessly around and round. The term also refers to illicit fornication, the desire for which Slavic clerics claimed to come from the Devil.^[1]

Blud in the Russian language means: debauchery, adultery and deviation from the straight path in the literal and figurative sense.^{[citation needed]}

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↑ Levin, Eve, Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700. pp. 46, 157, 164, 189, Cornell University Press, 1995

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Entities	Ala Alkonost Baba Yaga Babay Baš Čelik Bauk Berehynia Bies Black Arab Błędnica Blud Boginki Bukavac Chernava Chuhaister Cikavac Chort Čuma Dukljan Dziwożona Fern flower-Chervona Ruta Firebird Gagana Gamayun Indrik Ispolin Karzełek Koshchei Krsnik Likho Likhoradka Mare Meduza Molfar Nav Nocnitsa Płanetnik Povitrulya Psoglav Raróg Rahmans Raskovnik Rozhanitsy Rusalka Samodiva Sea Tsar Sirin Shishiga Skrzak Strzyga Stuhać Stricha Sudice Tintilinić Topielec Ved Vesna Zduhać Zmey Werewolf White-Eyed Chud

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