Devil Boruta () is a fictional character from Polish mythology, folklore and literature, who is associated with the Polish town of Łęczyca.Barbara Podgórska Adam Podgórski, Wielka Księga Demonów Polskich - leksykon i antologia demonologii ludowej Katowice, 2005, , pp. 62-63.
The character is the transformation of the pagan Slavic leshy in post-Christianization times. Boruta is also referred to as błotnik,Fischer, A. (1928). Diabeł w wierzeniach ludu polskiego, pp. 208.Pełka, Leonard (1987). Polska demonologia ludowa. Warszawa: Iskry. pp.187. a swamp spirit.
He was usually considered to be a nobleman, and accordingly, he was usually busy with corrupting nobles, leaving other social classes to other devils - like Rokita the devil from the same region, who more often tempted peasants. Zygmunt Gloger and some other ethnologists believed that dressing Boruta as a nobleman is fakelore produced in the 19th century and reintroduced into folklore.
In Encyklopedia staropolska In Zygmunt Gloger's Encyklopedia staropolska ( 1900–1903) Boruta is described as follows:Zygmunt Gloger, Encyklopedia staropolska, 1900–1903, Boruta
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