• Poludnica >poh-wood-NEET-sah< 4 5 6
  - agrarian / elemental / malefic spirit - infer
  - malevolent 3 6 11
  - female 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 11 13 14 15 21
  - field spirit 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 11 13 14 15 21
  - lady midday 1 4 5 6
  - noon 4 10 16 21
  - the whirlwind 4
  - poluden / polden (noon) 1 2 5 6
  - polden' [Rus] (midday) 15
  - polu (half / middle) / den (day) 11
    - razputno vreme 11
      - midday & from midnight till dawn 11
      - (evil hours when roads mess up & lead to nowhere) 11
  - heat exhaustion / sunstroke 5 6
  - steals children or leads them astray 6
  - appears as a 13-yr old girl 6 or a beautiful maiden 6 10 14
    - carries a scythe 6
  - appears as a crone [Wen] 6
    - carries shears 6
  - appears as a tall woman or a girl dressed in white 21
  aka Pol[s]udnica [Pol] 4 16
  aka Poldunica 6
  aka Poludnitsa [Rus] 1 2 3 10 11 13 14 15 21
    - appears as a beautiful young black-haired woman 11
    - appears clothed in pure white chemise (riza) 3 10 11
      - white: symbolic of mourning & death 11
    - sister to Polunoshtnitsa 11
  aka Psezpolnica [Srb] 4 5 6
  aka Pscipolnitsa [Wen] 5
  aka Polednica 6
  aka Polednice [Cz] [Srb] 6
  aka Poludnica 6
    - floats on the winds 6
  aka Prezpoludnica 6
  aka Zitna-atka [Srb] 6
    see Zitna-atka 6