Simply put, for generations without number the legend had existed, and so, with just slight variations in spelling, the creature had always been known as Ruseotokol.
Of course, for almost 200 years there have been efforts made to track down the origins of the legend.
Not of the creature though - it's possible existence has long been doubted, but the legend made for a good if odd story, so people have been fairly relentless in trying to unearth how it came about.
Most researchers have agreed it most likely began as a story told to children by parents as a means of imparting a life lesson - after all, it does have a boogie-man quality to it, even if the boogie-man in question, the Ruseotokol, does not actually do anything that harms anyone, and the traditional descriptions of it's physical appearance are far from fearful or intimidating.
And, as no other reasonable explanation for a tale involving a three foot tall pink tumbleweed-with-feet, googly eyed and slobbery monster that is afraid of chickens has ever been presented, and the point of the legend being that one should never play in a sandbox without checking the sand for eggs makes sense in a community that depends on chicken ranching as it's economic base, there really doesn't appear any need to attribute any other possible origin.
Except for the once-in-every-blue-moon appearance of the bloody messages scrawled on the walls of every dining room in every house in the village...the messages that read "chickens have ghosts"...
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