Puppet
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A puppet was a movable model of a person that was controlled by another person, typically with strings.
The Carrionite Lilith in 1599 used a wooden puppet of William Shakespeare to hypnotise him into writing Love's Labour's Won without his knowledge of having ever written it. (TV: The Shakespeare Code)
Ashildr made puppets. (TV: The Girl Who Died)