In this article, you can find out the correct answer to the question of the second round of today's game "Field of Miracles" for 01/26/2018. The game was dedicated to the swamp. You can find out below how the question of the second round sounds in the original. The question of the kikimore.
In ancient times, the Eastern Slavs believed that an evil swamp spirit lived in a swamp in a female guise - a kikimora. She usually married Leshy. But sometimes the kikimora became the wife of a brownie and moved into the house. Thanks to such a spouse ... what began there? (10 letters).
What began in the house when the kikimora married a brownie and settled in the house?
Kikimora is a Russian and, to a lesser extent, Belarusian mythological character, predominantly female, living in a person's dwelling and in other buildings, spinning at night and causing harm and trouble to the economy and people. Representations of the kikimora have been known since the 17th century; it is also assumed that her image is associated with more ancient characters.
Kikimors, according to Russian belief, are girls cursed by their own mothers in the womb or before baptism, who died unbaptized, as well as those born by women from a fiery snake-tempter. Such children are kidnapped by evil spirits even in infancy, and at the age of seven they turn into evil spirits - kikimor.
Some kikimors subsequently marry brownies and begin to do dirty tricks in the house, others - for the goblin. They become swampy. It should be noted that the usual brownie's wife - the housewife (domakha), is not distinguished by a violent disposition. Her behavior mainly depends on whether she likes the mistress of the house.
Thus, proceeding from the already opened letters, it becomes clear to us that the correct answer to the question of the second round is: disorder (10 letters), because this is how the wife of a brownie, a kikimora, can do mischief.
Kikimora are of different origins:
♠ these are babies who died unbaptized, stillborn, premature babies, miscarriages, freaks without arms and legs
♠ children from a vicious connection with a fiery serpent;
♠ children cursed by their parents and therefore abducted or exchanged by evil spirits.
Kikimors usually settle in premises if the corpse of a child, a hanged or uncooked deceased was buried under them, also in a house where the child died for any reason. May be sent by a sorcerer.
Kikimors love to joke with people and sometimes appear in the form of a child abandoned on the way; picked up and warmed by people, they run away, laughing at them. She was represented in different ways: as the mistress of the hut, the wife of a brownie or a goblin. Kikimora swamp or forest was accused of kidnapping children, leaving an enchanted log instead. Her presence in the house could be easily identified by the wet footprints. One could protect oneself from kikimora by a word of prayer, by invoking the name of God, or, conversely, by abuse.
Kikimor's favorite hobby is weaving and yarn. On the night before Christmas they whip and burn a tow, left without prayer by the scattered spinning wheels on the spinning wheels. This feature in the activities of the kikimora makes her similar to the pagan goddess Mokosh, whose cult influence probably left its mark on the image of this domestic spirit. Occasionally, the kikimora was even considered a female helper in baking bread, washing dishes, caring for livestock, and lulling children.
It was believed that the kikimora can be seen before special events significant to family members, often on the doorstep. If she cries or knocks loudly with bobbins for lace weaving, this portends trouble, if she is spinning, then someone's death should be expected. If you ask a kikimora, she can answer with a knock.
The caught kikimora could be turned into a human if the hair was cut off at the crown of her head in the form of a cross. However, there will always be some kind of flaw reminiscent of the past: stuttering, stoop, weak mind.
In the person of the kikimora, we have the remnant of some lower deity of the ancient Slavs. Belief in them is probably related to the cult of the souls of departed ancestors. Some equate the kikimora with the French cauchemar spirit.
The people imagine the kikimor in the form of ugly dwarfs or babies, whose head is like a thimble, and the body is as thin as a straw. They have the ability to be invisible, run fast and see far away, wear no clothes or shoes - they are forever young girls, small and restless. According to other descriptions, the kikimora looks like a small, gnarled and ugly old woman, dressed in torn rags, funny and sloppy, who is afraid that she will be blown away by the wind, and therefore does not leave the house. Occasionally, the kikimora was presented in the guise of a man. Occasionally in the guise of a maiden with loose hair or a long braid, completely undressed or in a one-color shirt. Occasionally - in the guise of a married woman in a warrior. There is a belief that the kikimora was shown to look like a dog, pig, duck, as well as like a hare, a hamster.
By their affinity with house spirits, kikimors usually live behind the stove, under the floor, in the attic. They can also live in abandoned buildings, in the yard, in a bathhouse, in a barn, in a threshing floor, in a chicken coop; even in a pub. During the day it hides from people, is active at night, sometimes bothers the owners with noise and fuss. On quiet nights, you can hear them jumping, spinning and twisting threads. He can finish yarn left, that's just not from left to right, but vice versa, but more often it breaks and clutters the threads, burns the tow, tangles the wool that was thrown without a blessing. She sews poorly, the stitches of the kikimora are uneven, uneven: "You won't get a shirt from the kikimora" (Russian proverb).
Appearing in the house, kikimors are a constant source of trouble, do small dirty tricks: they interfere with sleep by rustling, howling, squeaking, crying, breaking dishes, throwing bulbs from underground, throwing off their clothes, driving horses at night, shearing feathers from chickens and wool from sheep:
At one owner, the kikimora severely tormented the sheep, sheared their wool, and no matter how hard they tried to get rid of it, nothing came of it. Then the owners decided to move to another village. They hoped that the kikimora would remain in its old place. As the things were packed in the cart, the owner asks: "Did they take everything from home?" And from the cart came a thin voice: "Did you take everything, I don't know, but I took my scissors!"
Sometimes, in a fit of playfulness, kikimors, like brownies, fall on the owners and strangle them at night, they can pull their hair. The following story was popular:
In one hut, a kikimora started up, she walked all night on the floor and stamped her feet heavily. Then she began to rattle dishes and beat the bowls. The owners had to leave this house, and it was left in desolation. After a while, gypsies with a bear settled there. Kikimora, not knowing with whom she contacted, pounced on the bear, but he severely crushed her. Kikimora ran away from this house. When the owners found out that the "frightening" in the house had ceased, they returned there. A month later, she approached the house of the kikimora in the form of an ordinary woman and asked the children: - Has the big cat left you? - The cat is alive and has brought kittens, - the guys answered her. Kikimora walked back, muttering as she walked: "Now it’s quite a misfortune, the cat was angry, and you cannot approach her with kittens at all."
Kikimora chrysalis
There is a belief that kikimor is sent to the owners by stove-makers or carpenters, dissatisfied or offended when paying for a building. A chrysalis made of chips or sewn from rags, depicting a kikimora, is laid somewhere in the house, often between logs or beams, after which a "planted kikimora" appears in the house, sending all sorts of delusions on the owners: they are shown either a hare or a pig, now a dog, now a bull, dancing songs appear, doors open by themselves.
To stop the atrocities of the kikimora, the thrown doll had to be found and burned. Or throw it away in a remote area.
Chicken god
The “chicken god” - a black stone the size of a goose's egg and with a hole of natural origin, a whole neck from a broken jug or a worn bast shoe - was considered a universal amulet against the kikimora. “Chicken God” in the Vologda region was also called “one-eyed kikimora”. On January 15, on "Sylvester's Day," he was hung by a string on the wall of the chicken coop to protect the chickens from brownies and kikimors.
Other items
Kikimora does not like juniper, from the twigs of which they made braiding for the salt shaker, so that the kikimora would not carry salt. The pots and other dishes were washed with fern infusion so that the kikimora would not touch them. In one 18th century medical book, to get rid of kikimora, it was proposed to put camel wool with incense in the house.
Kikimora in the folk calendar
According to some local beliefs, the kikimora lives on the street or in the threshing floor until Christmas time, and then leaves no one knows where. In the Vologda province, it was believed that on Svyatki the kikimora gives birth to children. Newborns fly into the chimney into the street, where they live until Epiphany (January 19), these are shulykans (shushkans). On Christmastide festivities, old women portrayed "shishimor": they put on torn clothes and, with a long, pointed stick, sat on the beds, dangling their legs from the timber and, putting the spinning wheel between their legs, spun. The girls, laughing, grabbed their legs, and the "kikimora" fought them off with a stick. Sometimes the kikimoru was portrayed as a guy dressed in old lady's rags and with a clay pot on his head, replacing a kokoshnik. After the pot was smashed, the kikimora turned into an ordinary guy.
Saint Mariamne, whose day of remembrance is celebrated by the church on March 2, was popularly called Merem'yana-Kikimora.
On March 17, on the day of "Gerasim Grachevnik," the kikimora could survive from home, at this time they become meek. To expel the kikimora they used the conspiracy: "Oh you, goy thou, kikimora brownie, get out of the gorun's house quickly!"
The word kikimora & "kikimara" is two-part: kiki & mara or mora
♠ “kik- / kyk- / kuk” is an ancient Balto-Slavic root meaning “crookedness, hunchback”;
♠ "mor" is a common Slavic root meaning "death". In European legends, Mara sits on the sleeping man's chest, causing suffocation.
There is also an opinion that the first part - "Kiki" is a Finno-Ugric female name "Kikke", also "Morko" in Finnish means "scarecrow, horror, darkness".
An alternative nickname - "shishimora" is the zaboo name of the kikimora, as all devils were called "shisha". There is a theory that it goes back to the verbs of the Russian dialectal origin "shish, shish" - "swarm, move, do stealthily."
Kikimora(kikimara, shishimora, shishimara, neighbor, mara, etc.) - predominantly a negative character in Slavic mythology, one of the types of brownie.
Kikimora are of different origins:
- these are babies who died unbaptized, stillborn, premature babies, miscarriages, freaks without arms and legs
- children from a vicious connection with a fiery serpent;
- children cursed by their parents and therefore abducted or exchanged by evil spirits.
Kikimors usually settle in premises if the corpse of a child, a hanged or uncooked deceased was buried under them, also in a house where the child died for any reason. May be sent by a sorcerer.
Kikimors love to joke with people and sometimes appear in the form of a child abandoned on the way; picked up and warmed by people, they run away, laughing at them. She was represented in different ways: as the mistress of the hut, the wife of a brownie or a goblin. Kikimora swamp or forest was accused of kidnapping children, leaving an enchanted log instead. Her presence in the house could be easily identified by the wet footprints. One could protect oneself from kikimora by a word of prayer, by invoking the name of God, or, conversely, by abuse.
Kikimor's favorite hobby is weaving and yarn. On the night before Christmas they whip and burn a tow, left without prayer by the scattered spinning wheels on the spinning wheels. This feature in the activities of the kikimora makes her similar to the pagan goddess Mokosh, whose cult influence probably left its mark on the image of this domestic spirit. Occasionally, the kikimora was even considered a female helper in baking bread, washing dishes, caring for livestock, and lulling children.
It was believed that the kikimora can be seen before special events significant to family members, often on the doorstep. If she cries or knocks loudly with bobbins for lace weaving, this portends trouble, if she is spinning, then someone's death should be expected. If you ask a kikimora, she can answer with a knock.
The caught kikimora could be turned into a human if the hair was cut off at the crown of her head in the form of a cross. However, there will always be some kind of flaw reminiscent of the past: stuttering, stoop, weak mind.
In the person of the kikimora, we have the remnant of some lower deity of the ancient Slavs. Belief in them is probably related to the cult of the souls of departed ancestors.
Description
The people imagine the kikimor in the form of ugly dwarfs or babies, whose head is like a thimble, and the body is as thin as a straw. They have the ability to be invisible, run fast and see far away, wear no clothes or shoes - they are forever young girls, small and restless. According to other descriptions, the kikimora looks like a small, gnarled and ugly old woman, dressed in torn rags, funny and sloppy, who is afraid that she will be blown away by the wind, and therefore does not leave the house. Occasionally, the kikimora was presented in the guise of a man. Occasionally in the guise of a maiden with loose hair or a long braid, completely undressed or in a one-color shirt. Occasionally - in the guise of a married woman in a warrior. There is a belief that the kikimora was shown to look like a dog, pig, duck, as well as like a hare, a hamster.
By their affinity with house spirits, kikimors usually live behind the stove, under the floor, in the attic. They can also live in abandoned buildings, in the yard, in a bathhouse, in a barn, in a threshing floor, in a chicken coop; even in a pub. During the day it hides from people, is active at night, sometimes bothers the owners with noise and fuss. On quiet nights, you can hear them jumping, spinning and twisting threads. He can finish yarn left, that's just not from left to right, but vice versa, but more often it breaks and clutters the threads, burns the tow, tangles the wool that was thrown without a blessing. Does not sew well, the stitches of the kikimora are uneven, uneven:
"You can't wait for a shirt from a kikimora"
(Russian proverb)
Appearing in the house, kikimors are a constant source of trouble, do small dirty tricks: they interfere with sleep by rustling, howling, squeaking, crying, breaking dishes, throwing bulbs from underground, throwing off their clothes, driving horses at night, shearing feathers from chickens and wool from sheep:
Appearing in the house, kikimors are a constant source of trouble, do small dirty tricks: they interfere with sleep by rustling, howling, squeaking, crying, breaking dishes, throwing bulbs from underground, throwing off their clothes, driving horses at night, shearing feathers from chickens and wool from sheep:
At one owner, the kikimora severely tormented the sheep, sheared their wool, and no matter how hard they tried to get rid of it, nothing came of it. Then the owners decided to move to another village. They hoped that the kikimora would remain in its old place. As the things were packed in the cart, the owner asks: "Did they take everything from home?" And from the cart came a thin voice: "Did you take everything, I don't know, but I took my scissors!"
Sometimes, in a fit of playfulness, kikimors, like brownies, fall on the owners and strangle them at night, they can pull their hair. The following story was popular:
Mythological imageIn one hut, a kikimora started up, she walked all night on the floor and stamped her feet heavily. Then she began to rattle dishes and beat the bowls. The owners had to leave this house, and it was left in desolation. After a while, gypsies with a bear settled there. Kikimora, not knowing with whom she contacted, pounced on the bear, but he severely crushed her. Kikimora ran away from this house. When the owners found out that the "frightening" in the house had ceased, they returned there. A month later, she approached the house of the kikimora in the form of an ordinary woman and asked the children: - Has the big cat left you? - The cat is alive and has brought kittens, - they answered: the guys. Kikimora walked back, muttering as she walked: "Now it’s quite a misfortune, the cat was angry, and you cannot approach her with kittens at all."
Kikimora are of different origins:
- these are babies who died unbaptized, stillborn, premature babies, miscarriages, freaks without arms and legs
- children from a vicious connection with a fiery serpent;
- children cursed by their parents and therefore abducted or exchanged by evil spirits.
Kikimors, as a rule, settle in premises if the corpse of a child, a hanged or unsung deceased was buried under them, also in a house where the child died for any reason. May be sent by a sorcerer.
Kikimors love to joke with people and sometimes appear in the form of a child abandoned on the way; picked up and warmed by people, they run away, laughing at them. She was represented in different ways: as the mistress of the hut, the wife of a brownie or a goblin. Kikimora swamp or forest was accused of kidnapping children, leaving an enchanted log instead. Her presence in the house could be easily identified by the wet footprints. One could protect oneself from kikimora by a word of prayer, by invoking the name of God, or, conversely, by abuse.
Kikimor's favorite hobby is weaving and yarn. On the night before Christmas they whip and burn a tow, left without prayer by the scattered spinning wheels on the spinning wheels. This feature in the activities of the kikimora makes her similar to the pagan goddess Mokosh, whose cult influence probably left its mark on the image of this domestic spirit. Occasionally, the kikimora was even considered a female helper in baking bread, washing dishes, caring for livestock, and lulling children.
It was believed that the kikimora can be seen before special events significant to family members, often on the doorstep. If she cries or knocks loudly with bobbins for lace weaving, this portends trouble, if she is spinning, then someone's death should be expected. If you ask a kikimora, she can answer with a knock.
The caught kikimora could be turned into a human if the hair was cut off at the crown of her head in the form of a cross. However, there will always be some kind of flaw reminiscent of the past: stuttering, stoop, weak mind.
In the person of the kikimora, we have the remnant of some lower deity of the ancient Slavs. Belief in them is probably related to the cult of the souls of departed ancestors. Some identify the kikimora with the French spirit. cauchemar.
Appearance and description
The people imagine the kikimor in the form of ugly dwarfs or babies, whose head is like a thimble, and the body is as thin as a straw. They have the ability to be invisible, run fast and see far away, wear no clothes or shoes - they are forever young girls, small and restless. According to other descriptions, the kikimora looks like a small, gnarled and ugly old woman, dressed in torn rags, funny and sloppy, who is afraid that she will be blown away by the wind, and therefore does not leave the house. Occasionally, the kikimora was presented in the guise of a man. Occasionally in the guise of a maiden with loose hair or a long braid, completely undressed or in a one-color shirt. Occasionally - in the guise of a married woman in a warrior. There is a belief that the kikimora was shown to look like a dog, pig, duck, as well as like a hare, a hamster.
Activities and lifestyle
By their affinity with house spirits, kikimors usually live behind the stove, under the floor, in the attic. They can also live in abandoned buildings, in the yard, in a bathhouse, in a barn, in a threshing floor, in a chicken coop; even in a pub. During the day it hides from people, is active at night, sometimes bothers the owners with noise and fuss. On quiet nights, you can hear them jumping, spinning and twisting threads. He can finish yarn left, that's just not from left to right, but vice versa, but more often it breaks and clutters the threads, burns the tow, tangles the wool that was thrown without a blessing. Does not sew well, the stitches of the kikimora are uneven, uneven: "You can't wait for a shirt from a kikimora"(Russian proverb).
Kikimora's antics
Appearing in the house, kikimors are a constant source of trouble, do small dirty tricks: they interfere with sleep by rustling, howling, squeaking, crying, breaking dishes, throwing bulbs from underground, throwing off their clothes, driving horses at night, shearing feathers from chickens and wool from sheep:
At one owner, the kikimora severely tormented the sheep, sheared their wool, and no matter how hard they tried to get rid of it, nothing came of it. Then the owners decided to move to another village. They hoped that the kikimora would remain in its old place. As the things were packed in the cart, the owner asks: "Did they take everything from home?" And from the cart came a thin voice: "Did you take everything, I don't know, but I took my scissors!"
Sometimes, in a fit of playfulness, kikimors, like brownies, fall on the owners and strangle them at night, they can pull their hair. The following story was popular:
In one hut, a kikimora started up, she walked all night on the floor and stamped her feet heavily. Then she began to rattle dishes and beat the bowls. The owners had to leave this house, and it was left in desolation. After a while, gypsies with a bear settled there. Kikimora, not knowing with whom she contacted, pounced on the bear, but he severely crushed her. Kikimora ran away from this house. When the owners found out that the "frightening" in the house had ceased, they returned there. A month later, she approached the house of the kikimora in the form of an ordinary woman and asked the children: - Has the big cat left you? - The cat is alive and has brought kittens, - the guys answered her. Kikimora walked back, muttering as she walked: "Now it’s quite a misfortune, the cat was angry, and you cannot approach her with kittens at all."
Proverbs
There is a Russian proverb "You can't wait for a shirt from Kikimora."
Kikimora lives behind the stove, in the attic, under the floor in a barn and in abandoned houses. After settling in the house, she breaks dishes, scatters onions, plucks out sheep wool and chicken feathers.
Different peoples in mythology have the same image of the spirit that comes at night and strangles a person. This is a Nightmare, denounced in the form of Kikimora, dreams, torment, anxiety. I attribute these tricks to Kikimora - the choking of the owners in their sleep.
If the stove-maker and the carpenter were not paid for their work, the offended, they could throw between the logs a tattered doll sewn - little Kikimora. Then the owners dreamed of cats, then dogs, and various obsessions. To stop this, it was necessary to find and burn the "planted kikimora".
Folk calendar
According to the popular calendar, on January 15, on Sylvester's day, the chicken coops are cleaned, and a talisman called the chicken god is hung in them. He protects chickens from brownies and Kikimore.
Strong odors drive away all evil spirits. Therefore, in order to protect their home from Kikimore, people braided salt shakers with juniper, washed dishes with fern infusion, or laid camel wool and incense in the corners.
In the national calendar, March 1 is celebrated on the day of Meremian Kikimora. How Saint Mariamne could become Kikimora is difficult to explain.
Thus, the mythical Kikimora is a versatile image, on the account of which, both non-life-threatening tricks and death-bringing stifling nightmares. It is surprising that the word Kikimora is of Slavic origin, but has corresponding names for supernatural heroes among other peoples.
Perhaps this is just the image of a sloppy bore. But in this case, many languages have similar correspondences to define this type of people. KIKIMORA(Shishimora) - A courtyard spirit that is considered evil and harmful to poultry. The usual place of settlement is chicken coops, those corners of the stable where chickens roost. Stones are hung in the chicken coops, the so-called. "Chicken gods" so that the kikimors do not crush the chickens. Kikimor's occupation is direct - to pluck out the feathers of chickens and direct a "whirligig" at them (when they spin like crazy and fall dead). Kikimors beat and burn a tow left at the spinning wheels without the blessing of the Cross. Kikimor are represented as ugly dwarfs or babies, whose head is like a thimble, and the body is as thin as a straw. They are endowed with the ability to be invisible, run quickly and see vigilantly into distant spaces; wander around without clothes or shoes, never get old and love to knock, rattle, whistle and hiss. In the Vologda province, they also have good qualities: in the summer they guard the peas, patronize skillful and diligent housewives, lull little children at night, invisibly wash kinks and provide various household services. On the contrary, they hate and frighten lazy women. The name kikimora, which has become a swear word, is used in a wide variety of cases: this is the name of both an unsociable homebody and a woman who is very diligent in yarn. “- Ha! - burst out a thin voice, - ha! look! and the hat is on the pole ..: Hee-hee! .. hee-hee! And he as cheburahnulsya, stumbling on a smooth place! .. Winch-young men I crumpled sides ... Ha! ha ha ha! I spat in the cabbage soup for Grandmother at dinner, and put a bee in Grandpa's beard. Auknula-meowed under the kisses, hee! .. - All of Kikimora shook, hesitated, with laughter grabbed her skinny tummies "(AM Remizov." Tales "). "In the enchanted swamps there kikimors live, / They will tickle to hiccups and drag them to the bottom" (V.S. Vysotsky. "Song of evil spirits")
On March 17, according to the popular calendar, the day of Gerasim the Rookery is celebrated - this is the only day of the year when, according to Russian folk belief, an evil spirit can be driven out of the house - kikimora, also popularly known as kikimra, kukimora, kikimorka, shishimora, shmyshka, igony.
According to the church calendar, this is the day of memory of the Monk Gerasim of Lycia and the Monk Gerasim - the first Vologda miracle worker. This holiday in Russia coincided with the arrival of the rooks, therefore it received such a popular name - the day of Gerasim the rookery. There was a belief about this day:"Gerasim the rookery will return the rook to Russia, and he will drive the kikimora out of holy Russia".
Belief is called any deeply rooted opinion among the people, which is passed from mouth to mouth and taken on faith, without evidence. Russian beliefs were both true and false, which are called superstitions. In the old days, beliefs were taken very seriously, especially those who lived among the people for many centuries, having originated in the days of pagan Rus. The most common beliefs were stories about various mysterious creatures - brownies, mermaids, goblin, kikimors. Moreover, these were just beliefs, not superstitions, since in the old days many people were ready to swear that they personally talked to the brownie, and in the forest they met with a devil.
Kikimora is one of the varieties of brownie from the old Russian belief. She was represented as a dwarf or a small woman. If she was portrayed as a woman, then her head was small, with a thimble, and her body was as thin as a straw. Her appearance was ugly, her clothes were sloppy and unkempt. If depicted as a dwarf, then necessarily with eyes of different colors:one for evil eye, another for leprosy... Less often, the kikimora was represented as a girl with a long braid, naked or in a shirt.
Sometimes the kikimora was considered the wife of a brownie, and when he was away from home, it was his responsibility to look after the household. The wife of the goblin was also called kikimora - they called her the goblin or kikimora swamp. She was portrayed as a small hunched old woman. Such a variety of the image of the kikimora is presented in ancient Russian beliefs.
The word "kikimora" is complex and consists of two parts. “Kiki” means “cry”, and “mora” is the name of the ancient Slavic evil spirit Mara (Mora), which is similar in description and qualities to kikimora. This is one of the versions of the origin of the word "kikimora".
The Rusichi believed that kikimora were sent by unkind people who wished evil to the owners of the house. Carpenters or stove-makers could have let it go when building a house. They put it in the house secretly in the form of a figurine of a doll made of chips and rags, which is why over time a kikimora was wound up in the house. But the kikimora could start on its own, such a house was called dysfunctional.
She lived in the house behind the stove, during the day she was engaged in spinning and weaving, and at night she began to vandalize. She beat the dishes, stamped her feet, threw things, but in the morning the owners found all the things in their places, safe and sound. She also loved to annoy the owners with her rustling, howling, crying, interfering with sleep, and dirtying pets, cutting their wool, and plucking feathers from birds.
In the old days it was believed that if the kikimora appeared in sight, then it was worth expecting trouble in the house. She was a harbinger of the death of one of the family members.
They did not like the Kikimore and tried to get rid of them by any means, which was extremely difficult. Just on Gerasim-day, it was believed that they became quiet and harmless, and then they could be kicked out of the house. On other days, people protected themselves from kikimora with prayers and amulets.
The best amulet against the kikimora, so that it does not take root in the house, was the "chicken god" - a stone with a natural hole created by nature. They also used a neck from a broken jug with a piece of red cloth, which was hung over a chicken perch so that the kikimora would not torment the birds.
She is afraid of the kikimor of juniper, the twigs of which were hung all over the house, especially carefully protecting the salt shakers with salt so that at night she would not spill salt, which in the old days was very expensive. And if the kikimora annoyed with the clatter of dishes, then it was necessary to wash it with water infused with fern.
When expelling the kikimora, the healer, who drove her out of the house, used a special conspiracy:
Come out, you kikimora-brownie from the gorun's house,
otherwise they will hurt you with hot rods,
will be burned with fire,
will be filled with black resin.
My word is firm. Amen.
It was imperative to find a doll or a foreign object in the house, with the help of which the kikimora was sent to the family. This item should have been carefully removed from the house and thrown away, and best of all, burned. There is still a sign that if a person wants to harm another, he leaves a charmed object in his house, and in order to remove the damage, it is necessary to get rid of this object.
According to popular belief, if you sweep the floors in a house with a broom made of wormwood, then evil spirits will not start, including kikimora. The belief is based on the attitude to wormwood as one of the amulets. The people believed that the pungent smell of this herb scares away evil spirits and evil people.The Legend of Kikimore:
According to the mythological ideas of the Eastern Slavs, it is the evil spirit of the house. By definition in the dictionary of Vladimir Dahl, kikimora is a type of brownie. Some researchers of the life of the Russian people believe that the kikimora is the wife of a brownie.
Our ancestors considered her an evil deity of nightmares, and later - an unkind spirit of a peasant hut. Kikimors will be born from the Fiery Serpent, and the evil spirits carry them beyond the distant lands, to evil sorcerers, where they learn all kinds of evil magic. In appearance, the kikimora is thin, small, with a head with a thimble, and the body is not thicker than a straw.
Stealthily, the kikimora sneaks into the peasant hut and settles behind the stove. From here she goes out at night to play pranks with spindles, a spinning wheel, knitting, started with yarn. He takes needlework and sits down in his favorite place - in the corner to the right of the entrance, near the stove. Whether the kikimora is sitting or spinning, it constantly bounces in place. The bobbins are knocking, the spindle is whistling all over the hut, the threads are spinning, but even though the kikimora works all night, there is no sense in her work. He mixes up the threads, breaks the yarn, crumples the tow, and then goes behind the stove to knock and creak there too, frightening small children. But this is still so, mischief! Now, if he dislikes someone, he will drive everyone out of the hut with his quirks. Nothing then kikimore suits his heart: the oven is not in place, and the table is in the wrong corner, and the bench is on the wrong wall. Everything in the house then falls and collapses, dishes break, milk turns sour, pies burn. And if she leaves the hut to live in a chicken coop, all the chickens will pluck their feathers! You can, of course, hang a "chicken god" in the chicken coop - a stone with a natural through hole, which was considered a talisman. You can wash everything in the hut with a tincture of the bitter fern root - the kikimora loves it very much and can leave it alone for pleasing. But the best and most reliable is to call a healer on Gerasim the Rookery (March 4, old style) and expel the uninvited guest with special, secret conspiracies, so that she will forget the way to the house!
At the same time, people also believed that the kikimora helps the skilled housewives, and only harms the lazy and careless.
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