Devil Boruta () is a fictional character from Polish mythology, folklore and literature, who is associated with the Polish town of à ÂÃÂczyca.
The character is the transformation of the pagan Slavic leshy in post-Christianization times. Boruta is also referred to as bà Âotnik, 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 Zygmunt Gloger's Encyklopedia staropolska ( 1900âÂÂ1903) Boruta is described as follows: