In Russian beliefs of the 19th–20th centuries, the view of the buka as a children's monster predominates. In the Novgorod region and some other areas of Russia, the buka is a mysterious creature, a personification of illusion, fear, and a mysterious power that can manifest anywhere, most often in particularly dangerous places (deep in the forest, in an abandoned house) at a particularly dangerous time (night).

Sometimes the buka takes on the appearance of the shaggy "master" of an empty house or forest thicket.

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