They're freaking terrifying, honestly, what's wrong with you? Giant velociraptors are not middling pests, Geralt. Ever succinct, he explains they, "live in dens," enjoy, "snapping at nethers," and that presenting the head of a wyvern to one's irascible father can provoke an expression of pride in one's mediocre offspring…which doesn't fit the wyvern we see biting through skulls and spines at the end of Episode 8 at all. Geralt brushes wyvern off as a middling pest, one that infests forests in packs that can be cleared by a single witcher. You can also try praying or salting your fire but those don't seem nearly as much fun as leading with your butt. Should you happen to irk him, you have but to make him laugh by putting your shoes on the wrong foot or putting your clothes on backwards. "As large as a mountain" or "as small as a blade of grass," depending on his mood, the leshy casts no shadow at any size.
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They have pointy heads, skin like tree bark, an aversion to belts and hats, and thinks the height of comedy is wearing his shoes on the wrong foot. Also called, " The Old Man of the Forest," a leshy in human form is covered in green fur minus eyebrows, eyelashes, and right ears. His feast day is still celebrated on September 27th. It's unclear if the leshy is a god, a demon, or a tree spirit (and it's possible he's been all three at various times, folklore is nothing if not flexible) who's rarely seen but often heard laughing, whistling, and singing in the forests of Easten Europe and Russia. 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. 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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