The Domovoi is a household spirit of Slavic tradition who looks after the home and family and keeps the peace. Yet if treated carelessly or provoked to anger, he leaves the house, and misfortune moves into the space he vacates.
As a watcher who always abides within the home — the place that should be safest — he shows the ambivalence of the uncanny, in which protection and threat coexist in a single being.