Gabija is the Lithuanian spirit of the hearth fire, protector of home and family, named in Jan Łasicki's 1615 list of Lithuanian gods and richly documented in folklore: she is fed bread and salt, given a bowl of clean water to wash in, and laid to rest each night by covering the coals with ashes so the fire does not 'go walking'. She can appear as a woman in red or as a cat, stork or rooster, and offences against her - spitting, stamping, urinating on the fire - bring fire and ruin. She is a household spirit, not a temple deity, and the mother of the household is her keeper.
Modern Practice
Gabija is kept every evening: the fire laid to bed, bread and salt at the hearth, the water bowl fresh, and no insult to the flame. Household fires are read as her mood, and the practice is the ordinary tending of a house as a sacred duty.