A marionette danced on strings, a jester decking in bells and bright red and yellow.

And the motion of these characters is positively stilted and looks like marionettes on strings as they bob and nod about.

Folklore also surrounds Belgium's traditional puppet theater, whose marionettes are based on characters from the tales of their particular cities.

For clarification, Teresa was explaining to the class that they were going to be like marionettes hanging by the strings.

For us, real marionettes, string marionettes , produced those moments of otherness, they created a spell, something very unnerving, disquieting.