Bestiary · Slavic · Spirit of fate
Nedolya
Also known as: Nedolia
Ill fortune as a living being who clings to an unlucky person; only when she falls asleep does life grow easier.
Nedolya ("ill lot") is the bad fate that clings to a luckless person. She is pictured as a ragged old woman or a creature who follows the man everywhere and spoils all his work. Only when his Nedolya falls asleep does his life grow easier, hence the saying "when Likho sleeps, don't wake it".