Ghillie suit
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A ghillie suit is a type of camouflage clothing designed to resemble the background environment – such as foliage. Typically, it is a net or cloth garment covered in loose strips of burlap, cloth, twi
British snipers from No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment training in ghillie suits in 2015
Wildlife photographer in a ghillie suit
An Italian 9th Alpini 'Aquila' Regiment sniper in a ProApto winter ghillie suit during NATO exercises in 2019
Iranian Navy sniper in a ghillie suit
Kikimora
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Kikimora is a legendary creature, a female house spirit in Slavic mythology. Her role in the house is usually juxtaposed with that of the domovoy. The kikimora can either be a "bad" or a "good" spirit
Ghillie suit
…in the wind in the same way as surrounding foliage. Hunters and soldiers may use ghillie suits with designs named for rural folk-spirits such as the kikimora of the swamps or the leshy of the forests. The English word ghillie is derived from the Scots Gaelic gille, meaning a young man or older boy who works…
Illustration of a kikimora (1934) by Ivan Bilibin (1876–1942). (Kikimora as house-spirit and guardian of chickens - hence her depiction in chicken-like form).
Swamp kikimora (кикимора болотная), after which the spider Kikimora palustris is named. Art work by symbolist painter Vasily Ivanovich Denisov (1862–1922).