It is an open admission, he cried. What more do you want? The fellow is a self-confessed humbug. We have only to return home and report him as the brazen imposter that he is.

...something like words, or better, passwordlike names, those of newborn children or dead relatives.

I can't watch that violent film. Blood is one of my triggers.

In spite of the general features discussed above, the Filippovka stags remain enigmatic. That they were conceived of as supernatural is shown by their exaggerated features and their gold- and silver-foil covering, as well as by the fact that they are only realistic enough to indicate their “deerness,” as noted by Farkas.