fyodorpavlov:

For day 23, freehand monster, I decided on a creature from Russian folklore. The kikimora is one of a number of household spirits, like the domovoy. But where the domovoy is usually a helpful guardian of the home, the kikimora is its dark sister, causing distress and disorder in the home and harassing its human inhabitants in their sleep. A strange looking hag, she communicates through human speech, knocking and mouse-like scratching. I didn’t know this until recently, but apparently the kikimora was a folkloric explanation for the hallucinations of sleep paralysis!
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