domestic-spirit-helps-or-harms-based-on-treatment

Kobold · salience 0.95

“They can be helpful or harmful, reflecting the dual nature of household spirits and the unseen forces believed to inhabit domestic spaces.”

Cat Sìth · salience 0.5

“Some tales speak of Cat Sidhes blessing households or rewarding those who show them respect, while others warn of their vindictive nature when slighted.”

Aitvaras

“In exchange, it demands to be fed, and in some tellings it insists on a specific dish, such as an unsalted omelette or scrambled eggs, left out for it; a keeper who refuses or neglects this due risks the spirit's anger or departure.”

Nat

“Nats are considered volatile and morally ambivalent: they can grant protection, fertility, and good fortune to households and villages that honor them, but are also believed to bring illness, misfortune, or possession upon those who neglect or offend them, particularly by violating taboos associated with a given spirit's shrine or domain.”

Nisse

“forgetting the offering, or serving it without butter, was said to provoke him into mischief or open sabotage, from tangling cattle's tails to souring milk to abandoning the farm outright, taking its prosperity with him.”