Old Belief
← Hiisi
Stand of old trees on a low rise, floor clear of undergrowth, light between trunks

the grove

The Estonian cognate still means a sacred grove, which is the clearest surviving evidence of what the word did before it meant a demon.

Basis: The Estonian hiis and the older sense · AI-generated

More of this creature

Enormous lone granite boulder standing in a spruce forest, moss on its north facethe hiidenkivi →Deep round pothole worn into bedrock, filled with dark rainwater and fallen needlesthe giants churn →