An angry domovoi throttles you in your sleep and hides what you need
Resonance
Householders and those moving house
Symbols
HearthThresholdHag stoneBread and saltStove
Mythology Summary
The domovoi is the household spirit of Slavic folk belief, 'the one of the house', who lives behind the stove or under the threshold and is counted as the founding ancestor of the kin; the folklorist Kagarov read him as a miniature Rod. He is known from 19th-century ethnographic collection (Dal, Afanasyev) rather than from any medieval text, and he has a female counterpart, the domania, with cousins in the dvorovoi (yard), bannik (bathhouse) and kikimora. He is a spirit of one household, not a god of a pantheon: no temple, no priesthood, and no proper name of his own.
Modern Practice
The practice is housekeeping as religion: porridge or bread left at the stove, the domovoi invited into the new house from the old hearth (or from the stove coals carried across), salt at the threshold, and no shouting or cursing in the house. He is asked for the house's luck and told when the family moves.