Kikimora (mythology)
See also: Kikimora
In the Slavic Mythologie Kikimora is a female spirit of the house, known also like Shishimora and sometimes presented as the wife of the Domovoy. Kikimoras would be the spirits of the not baptized children.
In certain tales, one says that Kikimora has a head as small as a die to be sewn and a body as light as a wisp of straw. In others, it is an average woman with the detached hair (the married Slavic women keep their covered hair and the young girls maintain them braided). It can also be described as an uneven small woman in a dirty dress.
It is said that Kikimora will deal of the farmyard and the house works if the house is well held. If not, it will whistle the night and will tickle the children by doing them pleurnicher. It is also said that it leaves also during the night to slip by and that a person who sees it with her wheel will die soon.
To alleviate Kikimora angry, one must wash all the pots and pans with the of fern.
She usually lives behind the furnace or in the cellar of the house which she haunts.
Kikimora can also be found in a marsh or a forest.
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