Puppets

Puppets.

A puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated by an entertainer, who is called a puppeteer. It is used in puppetry, which is a very ancient form of theatre.

There are many different varieties of puppets, and they are made of a wide range of materials, depending on their form and intended use. They can be extremely complex or very simple in their construction. 

ORIGINS.
Puppetry was practiced in Ancient Greece and the oldest written records of puppetry can found in the works of Herodotus and Xenophon, dating from the 5th century BC. The Greek word for puppet means "drawn by strings, string-pulling".