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Turkic mythology
Belief system Tengrism Shamanism
Chief gods and goddesses Tengri Kayra Ülgen Erlik Umay Bai Baianai Ak Ana Mergen
Epics and heroes Ergenekon Metehan Oghuz Khagan Asena Attila
Major concepts Sheka İye Grey wolf Kut
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Muu shuvuu (Oirat: му шовун, romanized: mu şovun; Buryat: муу шубуун, romanized: muu šubuun; Mongolian: муу шувуу; lit. 'harmful bird'; also romanized as mu shuvuu, muu shuwuu, moh shuvuu, muu shovun, or mu shubuun) is a mythological bird in Turkic mythology, Mongol mythology and Tengrism. They would look like young girls but have a sharp beak, which they try to cover either in a veil or with their hands. With their beaks, they would try to suck out the blood of the bodies of their victims. They were especially dangerous to travellers or lonely hunters. Mu shuvuu is believed to be usually created when a girl dies young or by violent death. The girl's soul would turn into a mu shuvuu then. When a father hides a flint in his deceased daughters hand, however, he would turn her soul into one as well.

Citations

1. Mongolian script: ᠮᠠᠭᠤ ᠰᠢᠪᠠᠭᠤ

1. Gregory Delaplace, P. Chuluunbat. (2022) When the Picture Comes in. Inner Asia 24:1, pages 103-130: CrossrefBirtalan, “Die Mythologie der mongolischen Volksreligion,” 1007–8; Okladnikov, Petroglify Baykala, 49
2. Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology. (2006). Ungarn: Central European University Press. p. 257

• Mongol mythology
• Siberian deities
• Turkic demons