Dummy — a character who is characterized by mostly North Russian mythological tradition. It was represented to the house owner and sometimes — wife a house.
The name of this character consists of two parts: "kik" and "Mora". Some researchers believe that the first part probably comes from the verb "to kick" meaning "to shout, to cry, to lament". Others elevate her to the ancient Balto-Slavic root CFC / kak- / cook that contains the value of roll, structnode. The second part of the word "Fagot" — "Maura" and close to him in the Slavic languages, the word "Mara" ILO to be independent names of the mythological character, is also the home of the spirit, and go back to the Slavic root Mor-, meaning "death." Local vowels the name frights might sound like "sisemore". The word scientists is associated with the verb "sisit", existing in the folk dialects has value "to swarm, to move, to do something stealthily". Not to mention that shades of meaning all the given roots and words associated with the relevant characteristics of the image frights in traditional representations.
In the mythological stories of fright appears ugly, hunched old woman, dressed in rags, slovenly, with her hair. Quite often she was depicted in Babi headdress on his head. The Vologda region and Yaroslavl province dummy was presented as a tiny women or old ladies. Vologda peasants believed that the dummy is so small that, for fear to be gone with the wind, never appears on the street. In Eastern Siberia the hobgoblin was represented as a naked girl with a long braid.
In some places, Olonets, Novgorod and Vologda provinces creature, like a hobgoblin, called "Mara", "mokusei" or "mucosa". It was imagined as a woman with a large head and long arms. Based on the name Mokosh and her involvement in women's work, the researchers believe that it is possible to see the transformed image dnevnika-venskogo deity Mokosh. In some places they were known as the way of zapechelnyuk, or specialnoy Mary, which, as of Mokosh, was similar in its characteristics to a hobgoblin. Zapechelnyuk is also represented in the form of an old woman in a sundress and Princess hat, sometimes with her head uncovered and her hair.