: Poskakushka is a magical girl with red hair and a blue handkerchief who appears in the flames of a campfire. Her name literally means "the jumping (or hopping) girl".
You can find the story in various digital formats, including , on several reputable Russian literary sites:
: The character is believed to be inspired by the river Poskakukha near the Polevskoy plant in the Urals, where gold deposits were known to be "patchy," as if the gold itself were "hopping" from spot to spot.
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