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The Rusalka

Poser Mythology posted on Jul 28, 2013
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In Slavic folklore, a Rusalka is a water spirit or water nymph, the soul of a murdered girl or woman. Rusalki appear as beautiful young women who try to lure men into the water, where they will drown them. Whenever people bathed in the lake they put fern in their hair so that the rusalka would not pull them under and drown them. The rusalka could also be found sitting in a tree, singing songs, or on a rock combing her hair. She could be seen with other rusalki in dancing in the fields. Though in some versions of the myth her eyes shine like green fire, others describe them as extremely pale, with no visible pupils, such as in the famous Ivan Bilibin drawing. Her hair is sometimes depicted as green, and often perpetually wet. Rusalki like to entice men with their singing and drown them. In some versions hearing her laugh can kill you.

Comments (16)


artofsouls

7:56AM | Sun, 28 July 2013

Nice idea you have done a stunning job on this image 10+++

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jayfar

8:15AM | Sun, 28 July 2013

I won't be negative this is beautiful.

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lisalisette

8:28AM | Sun, 28 July 2013

Nice idea indeed :))

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LivingPixels

9:13AM | Sun, 28 July 2013

cool!

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bebopdlx

9:14AM | Sun, 28 July 2013

Cool work.

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Faemike55

9:23AM | Sun, 28 July 2013

Outstanding work on the image Very cool information

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UteBigSmile

9:31AM | Sun, 28 July 2013

Looks pretty cool!

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johndoop

11:05AM | Sun, 28 July 2013

Beautiful image!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ontar1

12:23PM | Sun, 28 July 2013

Fantastic scene and character, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Leije

1:18PM | Sun, 28 July 2013

Interesting stories about these water nymphs and very creative image !

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flavia49

5:38PM | Sun, 28 July 2013

beautiful work

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zaigodou

6:16PM | Sun, 28 July 2013

Fantastic Art!!!! Beauty!!!

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Tracesl

10:16PM | Sun, 28 July 2013

excellent

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renecyberdoc

9:34AM | Mon, 29 July 2013

very interesting.

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adrie

1:34PM | Tue, 30 July 2013

Great idea and wonderful work Shaun.

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GrandmaT

6:55PM | Wed, 31 July 2013

Great job!


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