Legends portray them ambiguously. Sometimes they marry a human and help him; at other times they exchange a human child for a changeling of their own. The book also groups jezinky or jeskyňky with these wild women: white female apparitions associated especially with caves and karst regions.
Where it appears
Forests and karst regions in Bohemia and Moravia.
What the old legends say
Folk legends advised people not to follow their singing at night or join their dancing. The sign of the cross, baptism and iron objects were traditionally used to protect small children, being credited with the power to repel supernatural female beings.
SOURCES OF THE STORY
Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 26
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.
