Menk

This figure is called menk in Ob-Ugrian folklore and ritual.

Although doors were jammed shut, the menk burst in with huge birch masks covered with hair made of hay.

A new documentary, “Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives” airing June 1 on the Discovery Channel explores the remote possibility that a “menk” — the Russian^([sic – meaning Mansi]) word for Yeti — may have been responsible.