Nõgikikka (Nõgikikas)

Black woodpecker, Dryocopus martius (see Rähni). Another bird with more names than feathers. I spare you the details. Breeds in Estonia. Wiedemann gives Kampfhahn, Machetes pugnax which is the ruff (now referred to as Kampfläufer, Philomachus pugnax), with Schwarzspecht (black woodpecker), covering his perse with a question mark. Here, however, amid the assarting street-name area, it is the name of a sooty, fireplace/stove/chimney spirit, one seemingly attributed with positive qualities as seen in various Võro idioms such as one when somebody throws a child’s (hopefully milk) tooth onto or behind the stove, saying Nõgikikas, säh, sulle luuhammas, anna lapsele raudhammas, Hey, Nõgikikas, we're giving you a tooth of bone, give the child a tooth of iron. The name also seems interchangeable with Viruskikas, where virus is the top of a stove, and viruskikas (which can also be a cricket) back-translates from Võro to Estonian as kurukikas, ‘nook/cranny cock’ or, PCly, ‘nook/cranny rooster’.