Who is the kikimora? A typical evil spirits, which in every possible way tries to harm people, According to some legends, she was the wife of a brownie, but in most legends, a malicious creature that lives in the house and constantly makes a mess on the farm. They say that because of this beast, the owners even had to leave their homes.
Kicking - screaming when talking about birds and crying when talking about people. This is the first part of the name of this evil spirit. The second component - mora or mara - is a character in myths and legends associated with death. In their deeds, these undead resemble a kikimora. Also lives in the house, confuses yarn, tears a tow. This spirit is also called a ghost that sits behind the stove and does its own disgrace at night.
Kikimora was described as a thin little woman, or as a hunchbacked ugly old woman in rags. This entity could take the form of an obscure shadow, a ghost. But it was usually believed that the kikimora could not be seen, and that she could reveal her presence through her vile deeds. Like other representatives of the dark forces, this creature quickly moves from one place to another, disappears in one place and immediately appears in the opposite. In addition, she has good eyesight, knowledge and is not prone to aging.
According to legend, girls who were cursed before baptism, or while still in the womb, as well as those born from a dragon, turn to kikimor. Such babies, often directly from the parent's womb, are stolen and taken into their hands by evil spirits. Children who died unbaptized can also turn into kikimors.
Most often, kikimors choose houses that are located in unclean places (cemeteries, places of murders or suicides). They may also appear as a consequence of the influence of the witchcraft of warlocks. Furnaces or carpenters, offended by the payment for work, could deliberately let a dark entity into the dwelling. They slandered any piece of wood and then hid it in a corner or under a house beam.
In the dwelling, the kikimora hides behind the stove, under the floor, in the attic, but can also live in the hen house, bathhouse, shed. You can feel the proximity of evil spirits at night, on Christmas night or during Christmas time. According to some legends, during the Christmas holidays, in bad weather, the entity gives birth to children, while emitting terrible groans and howls. After their birth, the children of evil spirits are on the earth until the onset of Baptism.
Usually, the kikimora cannot be seen even when she is a bully. She can speak, but her voice sounds as if from nowhere. The obscure shadow of the creature can be considered mainly at night for dirty work. According to legend, the kikimora loves to spin, but only spoils everything. If the hostess leaves the tow without a blessing, this unclean force will complete the work for her, and at the same time it will tear, confuse, and burn everything. The kikimora work underground, but sometimes it goes out and starts spinning on the threshold near the door in the right corner near the stove, where the garbage was swept away in order to throw it into the fire, and not take it out of the hut, so as not to attract trouble. In Russia, they believed that they spin kikimora only on Christmastide, which predetermines the course of the whole year. At this time, she "spins" the fate of the inhabitants of the house, if anyone sees her at this time, there will be big changes in life. Maybe,this somehow connects the kikimora with the pagan Makosh, who also spun the threads of fate. The pagan image of the goddess, in the days of Christianity, could well have been reborn into the image of a kikimora, an evil domestic entity.
In the legends of the people, kikimora brings misfortune. She comes out and begins to cry before the trouble or death of one of the household members. If the owners of the house notice that the kikimora comes out from under the stove-maker and starts spinning, this is a sign of change, if he sits underground and knocks loudly - to trouble, if he works at the front bench - to death. According to popular beliefs, kikimora harms men first of all. Having settled down in an empty house, evil spirits can not let anyone inside, throws stones, garbage. In a residential hut, he begins to annoy the owners in every possible way. Disturbing children, knocking at night, throwing vegetables and clothes, tangling hair. Because of her foolishness, hallucinations occur. With their antics, these evil spirits are able to drive out tenants from the house, if they do not end it in time.
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