#Milosnice

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Likhoradka

Sometimes called Tryasavitsa or Milosnice, the disease-phenomenon of Likhoradka was long considered to be not entirely dissimilar to the Pesta. Recent studies, however, suggest it is rather more complicated. Where Pesta are the disease-ghost of the final person to die of a disease before it’s extinction, Likhoradka are constructs of the compounded lingering magic of those who suffer from the same disease in the same area, and thus haunt hospitals with even more regularity than Pesta. So far as can be told, Likhoradka do not require death to manifest, merely the focussed magical bleed-off of someone who’s body is desperately fighting off the same disease as those around them. This magic shares properties and purpose and thus resonates at a similar enough level to seek out and gather together with other such magic, eventually manifesting in a specific form much as Poltergeists can from ambient chaotic magic.

Likhoradka usually take on female forms, though no one is entirely sure as to why. Male forms are sometimes seen, but due to the predominantly female appearance of most Likhoradka the term remains feminine. Like Pesta, Likhoradka can and do spread disease, though usually only if they are manifested from contagious diseases. There are two known Likhoradka manifested from chronic diseases - one in Budapest and one in Sofia - which have thus far stubbornly resisted any attempts to exorcise them or cleanse the hospitals of their magic. However, it seems that in chronic cases, Likhoradka are actually somewhat beneficial to those who have the condition in question, leaching off the magic of the disease rather than directly of the person, allowing the individual to fight back more against the disease. It is only around those unaffected that they become dangerous; their ambient magic replicating the sensations and symptoms of the condition in these individuals in a way that wears off after several hours but cannot be easily treated or cured.

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(Read more Likhoradka in lore over Here. In folklore they’re more like possessing spirits of disease, but I given the limitations of possession in HP’verse I felt this tweak would work better. I hate that I have to include this but PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THE IMAGE SOURCE OR MY CAPTION.) 

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