Kikimora is the Slavic and Russian goddess of the Home; She rules over all aspects of housekeeping and the cooking.
She sets up Her home in the basement or behind the stove.
She is known in some locations as the wife of the house god, Domova.
She also correlates with dreams and nightmare...
The Kikimora also keep people awake at night by tickling them in their sleep and making whistling noises.
If one is angered by this, they can be calmed by washing the pots in the house with a tea made from ferns. http://bit.ly/XfEk0D
There is a different kind of Kikimoras that inhabits the forest or lives in the swamp.
The Swamp Kikimora is the wife of Leshy.
Her presence can be recognized by wet footprints.
In some tales, she looks like an average woman with her hair down. (Married Slavic women typically kept their hair covered, and young unmarried girls kept it braided.)
She may also be described as a small humpbacked woman in dirty clothes...
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