URYAK

URYAK is a spirit, a ghost of a person died an unnatural death in Bashkir mythology. According to belief, it lives in places of death or burial of people. It appears to people (usually at night) and looks like a tall thin man dressed in long white gown. It moves silently. Mostly it comes to murderers, scares them by knocking at their doors and crying. U. makes them constantly anxious, drives them mad so that they end up committing suicide. The character is common for mythology of many peoples.

F.G. Khisamitdinova