Talk:Anastasia/@comment-2A02:A03F:2CAA:4500:2990:A0C:264C:4CE3-20180106130848/@comment-32879369-20180108011807

Pardon my intrusion but I think that's not what the doll means. Faceless dolls are a pagan tradition brought to Russia by East Slavs, and there's no consensus about its meaning, the most diffused is the one saying it's a good omen, representing something fulfilled, an amulet against possession or evil in general. I found theories saying the opposite (from what I've noticed, from catholic-ortodox people), the absence of a face might represent the void, something yet to be fulfilled and likely to be possessed by an evil entity, a possessed doll would manifest a shadow.

If you speak russian, you might find this discussion kinda of interesting: http://darovanie.ru/duma/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2825