Lithuanian mythological beings

Barstukai, or Barzdukai, are small beings of the underworld and tree roots, often explained alongside kaukai and other spirits of the borderland between earth and home.

In Lithuanian mythology, kaukai are small mythical beings associated with household abundance, grain, livestock, the underworld, and mysterious benefit to a human household.

Naminukas, or the house spirit, is a broad image of a mythical being that protects the home, helping explain the sacredness of the homestead, hearth, threshold, and daily household life.

In Lithuanian mythology, Žaltys is not only an animal but a sacred symbol of household guardianship, vital powers, earth, ancestors, and closeness to the Sun.

In Lithuanian and wider European folklore, Undinė is a water being often imagined as a beautiful woman connected with lakes, rivers, seduction, and the danger of water.

Vandenis and Vandenė are names for water spirits or water beings that can describe local mythical images of rivers, lakes, springs, and depths.

Field spirits are a broad layer of mythical beings active in fields, rye, grain edges, and harvest space, helping explain agrarian fears and prohibitions.

Žaltvykslė in Lithuanian folklore is an image of a wandering light or small flame, often connected with bogs, misleading paths, dangerous places, and a sense of the world of vėlės.

Baubas, Babaužis, and Maumas are names for frightening beings in Lithuanian folklore, often used to name children's fear, darkness, prohibitions, and unknown danger.

Slogutis or Slogutė in Lithuanian folklore is a night being of pressure and nightmare, explaining experiences of sleep paralysis, breathlessness, weight on the body, and night fear.

In Lithuanian mythology, vėlės are the souls or spirits of the dead, connected with ancestral remembrance, Vėlinės, cemeteries, homes, and ideas of human existence after death.

In Lithuanian place legends, giants are beings of extraordinary size used to explain stones, hills, hillforts, lakes, ancient structures, and the origin of the landscape.

Vilktakis or Vilkolakis in Lithuanian folklore is the image of a human transforming into a wolf, connected with curse, magic, the wild boundary, and fear of losing human form.

In Lithuanian folklore, the rainbow is not only a beautiful sky phenomenon but a living being, most often called Laumė's sash, smakas, or straublys, drinking water from lakes and rivers and thereby connecting earth with sky.