Slavic demon

The character is the transformation of the Slavic demon Boruta in post-Christianization times.

Chernobog: A Slavic demon.

Lesnik, Russian and Serbian rendering of the Slavic demon of the forest (Greek Pan (god))

Pre-Christian Slavic demons and spirits could be either good or evil, suggesting that the Slavs' pre-Christian religion had the concept of dualism.

It is believed that the diversity of appearances described is due to the ala's being a synthesis of a Slavic demon of bad weather and a similar demon of the central Balkans pre-Slavic population.