Traditional dolls

Japanese-created Russian cultural icon: set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another

figure cut out of paper or thin card, with separate clothes, also made of paper, that are usually held onto the doll by paper folding tabs

Petrushka () is a stock character of Russian folk puppetry. It was first introduced by traveling Italian performers in the first third of the 19th century during a period of Westernization in Russian culture. While most core characters came from Italy, they were soon transformed by the addition of material from the Russian cultural context.' Petrushkas are traditionally hand puppets. The character is a kind of a jester, a slapstick protagonist distinguished by his red dress, a red kolpak, and often a long nose.

thumb|A golliwog in the form of a child's soft play toy thumb|alt=A racist drawing depicting a black rag doll with a big, black head, sitting in a rocking chair, with three white children standing by (as seen in the Beaton household).|Florence Kate Upton's Golliwogg in formal minstrel attire in The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg in 1895 The golliwog, also spelled golliwogg or shortened to golly, is a doll-like play character, created by cartoonist and author Florence Kate Upton, which appeared in children's books in the late 19th century, usually depicted as a type of rag doll.

thumbnail|right|Poppets In folk magic and witchcraft, a poppet (also known as poppit, moppet, mommet or pippy) is a doll made to represent a person, for casting spells on them, or aiding that person through magic. They are occasionally found lodged in chimneys. These dolls may be fashioned from materials such as carved root, grain, corn shafts, fruit, paper, wax, a potato, clay, branches, or cloth stuffed with herbs, with the intent that any actions performed upon the effigy will be transferred to the subject based on sympathetic magic. Poppets are also used as kitchen witch figures. thumb|Pop

witch doll

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Hinged dancing doll, popular among Lurs

type of rag doll