repelled-by-fresh-water-crossing

Plat-Eye · salience 0.7

“Traditional protections named against a Plat-Eye include prayer, carrying certain charms, and crossing running water, on the belief that it cannot follow a person across a stream. The core image — swelling, warning eyes met on a dark road — is consistent across the sources, but accounts vary on origin, some treating the Plat-Eye as restless dead and others as a nature spirit with no human history at all, and on how dangerous an actual encounter is, ranging from a bad fright to real physical harm.”

Nuckelavee

“The only thing said to repel this dreaded being is fresh water, making rivers and streams the only safe havens from its terrifying presence.”