| “ | This is what passes for idolatry? Celebrities? What do they have besides small dogs and spray tans? | ” |
— Leshi
in Fallen Idols | ||
Leshii (leszy, lesij, lesij, leshy, Lešy, Lesiy, lechie, leshiy) was an Eastern European forest god. The god at one time had human worshipers.
Powers and Abilities
An interesting creature, some sort of tree god, he possessed great inhuman powers.
- Shapeshifting- Leshi can take the form of anything. However, he needs to touch something that belonged the person to take human personas.
- Super strength- Leshi possesses inhuman strength, able to overpower and flick full-grown men around with ease.
- Super speed- He can move very fast.
- Telepathy- He can read human minds, using this ability to learn who they admire.
- Telekinesis- He can use its mind to move objects.
- Immortality- He has immortality and near invulnerability.
- Teleportation - He can teleport anywhere it wants.
- Cryokinesis - Similar to a ghost, he can make the air grow cold.
Vulnerabilities
- Iron: A Leshi could only be killed by being beheaded with an axe made of iron.
- The First Blade - Can kill anything.
History
Season 5
Leshi's severed head.
Followers would willingly sacrifice themselves to him, but then 30 years ago the god's woods and forest was cut down. Leshii had to wander the earth hungry and hunted for two or three people a year.
Leshi started killing and feeding on more people when Sam and Dean started the Apocalypse. The creature wanted to fully feed himself and would do so by taking on the form of the idols of his victims and then feeding on them. He was finally killed by Sam Winchester by cutting off its head with an iron axe.
Trivia
- A Leshi usually appears as a tall man, but he is able to change his size from that of a blade of grass to a very tall tree. He has green hair and a beard made from living grass and vines, and is sometimes depicted with a tail, hooves, and horns. He has pale white skin that looks bluish because of his blue blood that contrasts with his bright green eyes.
- He is the Forest Lord and carries a club to express that he is the master of the wood.
- Leshi is the protector of all animals and birds in the forest.
- When he is in human form, he looks like a common peasant, except that his eyes glow and his shoes are on backwards.
- In some tales, he appears to visitors as a large talking mushroom.
- If a person befriends a leshi, the latter will teach them the secrets of magic. Farmers and shepherds would make pacts with the leshy to protect their crops and sheep. The leshi has many tricks, including leading peasants astray, making them sick, or tickling them to death. They are also known to hide the axes of woodcutters. If a leshy crosses the path of a person in the woods, the person will get lost immediately. To find the way out, you have to turn your clothes inside out and wear shoes on opposite feet.
Leshi in lore.
- Leshies are terribly mischievous beings: they have horrible cries, and can imitate voices of people familiar to wanderers and lure them back to their caves, where the leshies will tickle them to death; they also remove signs from their posts. Leshies aren't evil: although they enjoy misguiding humans and kidnapping young women, they are also known to keep grazing cattle from wandering too far into the forests and getting lost. Sometimes cow herders will make pacts with a leshi by handing him their crosses from around their necks and sharing communion with him after Christian church gatherings; these pacts are said to give the cowherds special powers.
- If more than one leshi inhabits a forest, they will fight for territorial rights. The evidence is in the fallen trees scattered about and scared animals.