.. restless souls … Rusalki .songs of dark laughter .an archetypal adventure .a ritual beyond the limits of reason .an erotic primordial bond between a human being and the nature .metaphysics of the good and the evil … songs between worlds … Rusalki .based on the motifs of Slavic mythology .inspiration from the ancient Greek treasury .songs from soil and water .screams, cries, laughter and songs … between death and the dead … Rusalki .undead and deadly beings .weavers of natural cycles .miraculous female characters existing between death and the dead .a symbol of potent, not yet realized female creativity Rusalki are miraculous female characters of Slavic tradition. They appear in ancient tunes sang by old women in Russian, Slovak, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and many other European villages. Rusalki are restless spirits of women who died accidentally or took their own lives: brides on the evening of their wedding, young mothers at birth of their child, newly-born girls, young women disappointed in love who took their own life. Rusalki are a symbol of potent, not yet realized female creativity and transformed fertility. Rusalki are myths about death and the dead. Rusalki are weavers connecting human, animal and vegetal fertility, and natural cycles with weather changes. In folk art they appear with ghostly crowns or as incredible beauties, looking like sirens: half-women — half-birds, half-women — half-fish, young women with wild, unkempt hair …Their …