Cowl (mythology)

Klobuk ( Polish: kłobuk, kołbuk ) - enrichment spirit in the Poles ’ folk ideas (the spirit of economic prosperity and prosperity). It was believed that he "wound up" from those owners who decide to enrich themselves with the help of evil spirits . The hood consists in servicing one of the household members, enriching it on the terms of a certain agreement with a person; in case of violation of the conditions of keeping the spirit and treating him, he not only stopped caring for the owner of the house, but also sent misfortunes, calamities, set fire to the house, and then disappeared.

It was believed that the enrichment spirit can be removed from a special egg (black chicken or from a cockerel), or simply found by chance after a heavy shower in the form of a wet chicken, chick (or even bought from "knowledgeable" people); on the other hand, in order to get such an “assistant,” people deliberately buried a miscarriage or stillborn child under their house, believing that after some time his soul would turn into a “little house”. The Polish population of Warmia and Mazur believed that in this way it is possible to “grow” a hood-enrichment spirit for your farm: when a stillborn baby was born in the family, parents buried it under the threshold of the house and expected that after 7 days (or 7 months, 7 years) ) his soul will appear and will ask her to be christened, - then it should have been said: “You will be a hood!”; after that a mythical “assistant” will appear in the house ^[1] .