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The Mistress of the Copper Mountain
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (), also known as The Malachite Maid, is a legendary creature from Slavic mythology and a Russian fairy tale character,〔Русский орфографический словарь: около 180 000 слов / Российская академия наук. Институт русского языка им. В. В. Виноградова / О.Е. Иванова, В.В. Лопатин (отв. ред.), И.В. Нечаева, Л.К. Чельцова. — 2-е изд., испр. и доп. — Москва, 2004. — 960 с.〕 the Mistress of the Ural Mountains. In the national folktales (also known as ''skaz'') and legends, she is depicted as an extremely beautiful green-eyed young woman in a malachite gown. She has been viewed as the patroness of miners,〔Металлы / Е. Е. Левкиевская // Славянские древности: Этнолингвистический словарь : в 5 т. / Под общей ред. Н. И. Толстого; Институт славяноведения РАН. — М. : Международные отношения, 2004. — Т. 3: К (Круг) — П (Перепелка). — С. 245–248. — ISBN 5-7133-1207-0.〕 the protector and owner of hidden underground riches, the one who can either permit or prevent the mining of stones and metals in certain places.
In some regions of the Ural Mountains, the image of the Mistress is connected with another female creature from the local folktales, The Azov Girl (), either the enchanted girl or the cursed Tatar princess who lives inside Azov mountain.〔Blazhes 1983, p. 7.〕
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain became a well known character from her appearance in Pavel Bazhov's collection of the Ural Mountains folktales called ''The Malachite Box''. The Mistress appears in the second ''skaz'', "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain", published in the 11th issue of ''Krasnaya Nov'' in 1936; and then in many other tales: "The Malachite Casket", "The Stone Flower", "The Manager's Boot-Soles", "Sochen and His Stones", "The Master Craftsman", "The Two Lizards", "A Fragile Twig", "The Grass Hideaway", and "Tayutka's Mirror".
==Characteristics==
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain is depicted as an extremely beautiful young woman with green eyes, braided hair and ribbons from thin tinkling copper, and her gown is made from malachite.〔 She wears a diadem decorated with malachite and precious stones. As a mountain spirit,〔Ecogothic, PostSoviet. "13 Ghost Mountains and Stone Maidens." Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches (2015). https://books.google.ru/books?hl=en&lr=&id=VpMGCAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT273&dq=Mistress+of+the+Copper+Mountain&ots=jcb2Zz5EVY&sig=xILZY6kCdRNbVlLBhSZvGUPSziE&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Mistress%20of%20the%20Copper%20Mountain&f=false〕 she is the protector and owner of hidden underground riches.〔Svalova, V. B. "The history of geothermal resources use in Russia and the former USSR." Proceedings. 2000. http://www.geothermal-energy.org/pdf/IGAstandard/WGC/2000/R0647.PDF〕 She is always surrounded by her servants,〔 small lizards, which can be green, blue, golden or luminous.〔Shvabauer 2009, p. 63.〕 The Mistress can appear as a lizard herself.〔Koreniuk, Maria S., and М. С. Коренюк. "The Images of Reptiles on the Items Found at the Glyadenovsky Bone Bed." (2015). http://www.elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/16760〕 According to the legends, a person who sees the Mistress comes under her spell. She shows kindness to good people and skilled craftsmen, helping them to find jewels and gold, but if her conditions aren't met, the person loses all his luck, skill and can even die.〔〔Blazhes 1983, p. 9.〕 She could permit or prevent the mining in certain places, give or take wealth.〔
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