Etymology of names and phraseology in the Serbian fair puppet theater "Kuku Todor"

The Serbian comic hero of folk puppet fair performances "Kuku Todor" has an interesting relationship with the semantics of words and phraseology of the Serbian language. In this work, an attempt is made to deal with the etymology of the name Kuku Todor. Todor is a character whose main characteristics are stupidity and cunning, frivolity and impulsiveness. The author comes to the conclusion that the uniqueness and observance of the tradition of the visual in the performances of this genre also affects the uniqueness of the consequences in the linguistic environment of the people where they appear. "Kuku Todor" is one of the few puppet shows in Serbia, which is interesting, original, uniquely connected with the phraseology of the Serbian language. The name of the protagonist of this performance is based on the holiday “Horse Easter”, and funeral lamentations, and colloquial exclamations, and a parallel with the Russian Fyodor Stratilat. Thus, a peculiar cyclicity arises in the language. The cause becomes the effect, and the effect becomes the cause. The cyclicity in the dramaturgy of this performance, as well as the cyclicity in the mise-en-scene of puppets in a screen-cabin, is also manifested in the language itself. This cyclicality is taken as the principle of constructing the performance. It is taken from the very nature of the relationship between life and death. More precisely, in the course of the ritual sacred rite, among other things, lamentations appeared, which became an integral part of the performance and returned to speech in a new, more common form.