Kaluk
Also called Kaluks.
Burmese tree nats, invisible but for leaves moving in still air, who kill the man who fells their tree without asking first.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Burmese (Myanmar) animist tradition
- Region
- Southeast Asia (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Unseen-Walkers
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Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Behaviour
- Forest guardian punishes poachers
why
The kaluk are described as violently protective of their own trees rather than of the forest at large, which keeps the whole relationship local and transactional: this tree, this request, this consequence, with no wider claim on how the forest is used.
Utility powers
- Invisibility
why
They are invisible, and the sign of them is precise and immediately checkable by anyone.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.
- Death meets
2 citations
- Carol Rose, Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins, s.v. "Kaluk."
- Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, s.v. "Kaluk."