Mama Yegu

No one quite knows how and where Mama Yegu and her children appear, or even if it is one entity or multiple entities as she can be found in many areas of Serrus. The Bolsh say she originated in Lake Ladislau when the spirits within it were disturbed. The Cinneadh say she has always existed and her spirit haunts those that abuse the water's resources and bounty.
Whatever the origin, she manifests herself typically on very cold nights underneath the waters. She only appears to children. Adults rarely catch even a glimpse of her as she drags their unsuspecting children to their deaths under the surface. The children who have seen here from the shores or those who have managed to escape her icy grip describe her as a rotting and desecrated women adorned with bones and tattered ribbons and cloth. She bobs up and down in the lake as if she is treading water and accompanying her are a number of similar, smaller bodies of children bound and wrapped in the same ribbons and cloth. A strand of ribbon tethers them to Mama Yegu.
They sit in the water and coax the children on the shore to come swim in the water. Something Mama Yegu does typically compels the children to comply and they swim out to meet her. That's when her ribbons and cloth whip as tendrils and ensnare the children and drag them to the depths below adding to the corpse children accompanying her. On some occasions, to those living on or near a lake, Mama Yegu's compulsion is so strong, she is able to wake children sleeping in their homes to come outside and swim.
The amount of time Mama Yegu haunts a lake varies and she will appear one night and disappear the next not to be seen again.

Basic Information

Ecology and Habitats

Mama Yegu haunts lakes and appears at night.

Dietary Needs and Habits

As a spirit, she doesn't need to eat or drink, but she does seek to collect the souls of children.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

She speaks to children telepathically and is able to compel them to enter the lake and swim towards her, to their doom.

Don't Hear Mama Yegu

Mama Yegu, Mama Yegu
Don't call on me
Mama Yegu, Mama Yegu
Take the boy down the street
The children can hear your song
But they mustn't listen
For they will end up playing with Mama Yegu's children