Devil Boruta ( pl, Diabeł Boruta) is a fictional character from Polish mythology, folklore and literature, associated with the Polish town of

Łęczyca Łęczyca (; in full the Royal Town of Łęczyca, pl, Królewskie Miasto Łęczyca; german: Lentschitza; he, לונטשיץ) is a town of 13,786 inhabitants () in central Poland. Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship, it is the county seat of the ...

. The character is the transformation of the pagan Slavic demon '' leshy'' in post-Christianization times. Boruta is also referred to as ''błotnik'',Pełka, Leonard (1987). ''Polska demonologia ludowa''. Warszawa: Iskry. pp.187. a swamp spirit known in the mythology of the Kashubians and especially the Eastern Slavs, where he is called a ''

bolotnik In Slavic mythology, bolotnik (russian: боло́тник, ; from ''boloto'', "swamp"), balotnik (), bolotyanik () or błotnik (Polish language, Polish; Help:IPA for Polish, �bwɔtnik "mud" or "puddle") is a male swamp spirit. There are many ...

''. He was usually considered to be a

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, and accordingly, he was usually busy with corrupting nobles, leaving other social classes to other devils - like Rokita the devil from the same region, who more often tempted peasants. Tales that do mention his coat of arms overwhelmingly say it's Nowina - albeit, with Polish coat of arms being often shared among a number of unrelated families, this did not lay any shame upon its other users.

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{{reflist Slavic mythology Polish legends Slavic demons