![]() Slavic folklore paints a very different picture of the leshy while he can be aggressive given certain circumstances, he's primarily a mischievous trickster and sometimes, a trusted friend to whom the countryfolk sent their children to be educated. They can use their roots as lashes or restraints, command nearby animals and plants, and can vanish temporarily to confound those who invade their space for nefarious purposes. ![]() Though they do have a wildcat/bear form, they're most often seen in human suits or as human-tree hybrids. Highly intelligent, polymorphic, iron resistant hunters, the leshen who haunt The Continent's forests hang around waiting to slaughter humans who dare enter their domain. The bruxsa would often come to beg for mercy which the mother could grant according to her whims. A mother who wanted to punish the bruxsa who harmed her child could do so by boiling the child's clothing and poking it with steel or iron needles. Bruxsa can be repelled by iron and steel as well as garlic. Their powers are only active between midnight and two in the morning which… seems like a pretty crap deal but I'm not here to judge. In their spare time, they worship Satan because of course they do. They have a particular affinity for children's blood and like to mess with travellers. Their alternate forms of choice are rats, ants (yes, ants, vampire ants), and wolves. Like many vampiric species, bruxsa can shift into animal forms. The legend of the bruxsa originated in Portugal and unlike Bram Stoker's bloodsuckers, bruxsa aren't turned by other vampires they're changed by magic and unlike the bruxsa of the Witcher-verse, they are invincible (though not invulnerable). Unlike others of her ilk, a bruxsa can tolerate sunlight, can't be detected by witcher medallions, and can communicate with anyone she wants telepathically. ![]() Her scream can throw large, muscular, really very handsome, grown men across courtyards and through stone walls. Our dear witcher's vampiric foe is a "pretty girl" who sings her way into people's dreams so as to bend them to her will and who is, in her natural form, a giant bat with huge fangs and nasty talons. And if you're thinking, "That doesn't look like a particularly Cyrillic word," you're one hundred percent correct. One of Geralt's ( Henry Cavill) more bruising Season 2 smackdowns is with a bruxsa.
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