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Baba-Yaga (Баба Яга; in Russian and also translated Baba Jaga; stress on the first a in Baba, but on the second a in Yaga) is a witch-like character in Slavic folklore. She flies around using a giant mortar and pestle, kidnaps (and presumably eats) small children, and lives in a forest hut, which stands on chicken legs. In modern days, she is often depicted not as a villainous, but simply a sociopathic or even gentle and friendly person. And in almost any tale she is very knowledgeable. The Russian word baba is an impolite term for "woman" with no direct translation in English (less polite than "woman" but not as bad as "bitch." The old-fashioned term "broad" may give the best idea). Mostly baba is simply translated as "woman" with the impoliteness left to context; meanwhile Yaga is a form of a certain name, it is thought to be a corruption of Slavic root for "hag", making "Baba Yaga" mean something like "old hag", or perhaps "hag hag". Baba Yaga is depicted as an old, knowledgeable, and geeky character with mystical servants.She is a common antagonist in Slavic folklore, known for kidnapping and eating children (and serving as a cautionary tale for small children against wandering off or talking to strangers). Some tales alternatively revolve around characters seeking her out for her wisdom or having her offer guidance to lost souls, though they are notably less in number; even when sought for guidance she is generally portrayed as having to be approached carefully, usually at great risk. She features in Vasilissa the Beautiful and The Death of Koschei the Deathless.The character of Baba Yaga has made dozens of appearances in popular culture and modern works including Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Orson Scott Card's novel Enchantment, Otfried Preußler's fantasy novel The Adventures of Strong Vanya, the Fables, Hellboy, and Friar comic series, innumerable Russian cartoons and tales like The Frog Princess, Runescape, Quest for Glory, Pathfinder, Blacktail note where you are the Baba Yaga , Bartok the Magnificent, Supernaturalnote In a Monster of the Week episode, "Drag Me Away (From You)"., and (as "Barbara Jagger") Alan Wake. She even provides the Red Baron moniker of one John Wick. Baba Yaga is also a brand of beer from the Massachusetts-based brewery. | |
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All Witches Have Cats: She has one, at least in some stories, but she has other animals as well. | |
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Another alternative version is that her house is sort of a watchtower between the human world and the world of spirits. This is why the hero or heroine will sometimes say "Hut, hut, turn your back to the forest and your facade to me". Because the forest is a straight way to the underworld. And guess in the middle of what Baba-Yaga lives? | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good is Not Nice: Even in tales where she is a helpful figure, it is usually not a good idea to disrespect her or to ask her more questions than strictly necessary. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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This is often explained by there being multiple Baba Yagas. Some stories even have the hero seek advice from a Baba Yaga, though this may just be Lampshade Hanging on how frequently she's used as a plot device. | |
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Psychopomp | |
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Psychopomp: The resemblance of her house to a traditional Slavic funerary hut has led some scholars to speculate that Baba Yaga is a symbolic gatekeeper between the world of the living and the realm of the dead. Especially in stories where she is helpful, her hut often stands on the border of the enchanted forest, and it is after communing with her that the protagonist steps out of the mundane and into the unknown, the realm of magic and spirits. Even in tales where she does not have this transitional property, Baba is often strongly associated with death - consider her Flaming Skulls and disembodied spectral servants in Vasilissa the Beautiful. | |
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Public Domain Character Has shown up in Dungeons & Dragons, Quest for Glory, Fables, Shadow Star (which, being Japanese, makes her a beautiful teenage girl and her chicken house a Mon) and now Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. SCP-352 is an alternative take on the character. Being an SCP object, it's quite unnerving in a different way. One story, The Chaos, had her hut and the phoenix fall in love. The French-Canadian youth fantasy novels Amos Daragon, being a textbook example of Fantasy Kitchen Sink, featured an evil old witch named Baya Gaya, very strongly based on the Slavic mythological character (the notes at the end of the novel outright say so). The witch is hired by the god Loki (yes, that Loki) to kill the heroes and she disguises herself as a beautiful young mermaid to do so. It's that kind of book. | |
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Elemental Embodiment | |
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Elemental Embodiment: While not an embodiment per se, according to That Other Wiki Baba Yaga represents the element of fire. Though it's not explicitely made clear in most tales, her ambiguous nature (sometimes helpful, sometimes destructive) hints towards this, so does the fact that her hut is based on the funerary huts where ancient Slavs cremated their dead. Not to mention those Flaming Skulls. | |
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Fair Folk: Whether she is a particularly powerful and ancient human witch or something else entirely can vary from story to story and from setting to setting, if it is explained at all, but like most fae, she can be hostile or helpful depending on her whims, and is never to be trifled with. | |
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The Storyteller | |
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In the 2019 Xena Warrior Princess mini-series, in issue #4, Xena, Gabrielle and Discord end up in the Russian taiga and are taken in by an old woman in her hut with a large pestle and mortar nearby. The old woman is a goddess and the last of a trio of witch deities, thus losing her powers because people do not believe in them anymore. With Gabrielle's help, who is The Storyteller, the witch woman gains enough power from people's belief in her, and thus the legend of Baba Yaga is born. | |
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Eats Babies | |
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Eats Babies: Most of the time. | |
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She's explicitly not a god, but only because she doesn't want to be bothered by prayers. Thanks to finding power sources other than Gods Need Prayer Badly she's around the same power level as beings like Cthulhu anyway. However, witches can take her as a patron. | |
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There exists a very powerful (Mega) Digimon named Babamon that looks like an old woman and attacks with a broom, which may be partially inspired by the witch, though "baba" is also a rude way of saying "old lady" in Japanese. | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: Some stories play her up as a good person in spite of her reputation and appearance. In some stories the key to her being non-malicious is politeness. | |
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Trickster Mentor | |
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Baba Yaga naturally plays a major role, as part antagonist and part Trickster Mentor, in Catherynne N Valente's Russian-folklore-based fantasy novel Deathless. | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: in Vasilissa the Beautiful, she eats enough for ten. | |
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Sacred Hospitality | |
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Sacred Hospitality: Sometimes, when the hero arrives, and she questions him, he complains that she has not given him food and drink first. She approves of this courage and will provide them. In another story, Baba Yaga finds the Tsar himself at the edge of death in her woods, badly wounded after a battle. Unimpressed by his lineage, she prepares to eat him. The Tsar angrily tells her that he got those wounds defending all the people of Russia, including her, from foreigners. Thus she owes him her gratitude and hospitality. Baba agrees and heals his wounds... then tells him never to return. | |
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Bizarrchitecture | |
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Bizarrchitecture: Baba Yaga's chicken-legged home. It even apparently moves. Truth in Television: The Sami◊ evidently used this style of architecture, called nili, and usually used for storehouses and barns, to prevent animals from reaching foodstuffs stored inside and stealing them. The legs are usually made from pine stumps and either tarred or smoked to prevent them from rotting. Alternatively, the odd look of her house is connected to the Slavic tradition of putting some wooden houses on stumps with chopped off roots to prevent the wood from rotting. Another alternative version is that her house is sort of a watchtower between the human world and the world of spirits. This is why the hero or heroine will sometimes say "Hut, hut, turn your back to the forest and your facade to me". Because the forest is a straight way to the underworld. And guess in the middle of what Baba-Yaga lives? One more version suggests that her house is actually a "domovina" — a special type of building that was put on a high stump with roots where ancient Slavic people used to bury their dead. Also domovinas had no doors and no windows so that a) the dead couldn't return to the world of living b) so that the living didn't disturb the dead for no good reason c) so that no element was tainted. This makes Baba-Yaga a priestess who leads the rite of cremation. | |
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Baba Yaga is also important to Golarion because she inadvertently created the misogynistic demon lord known as Kostchtchie, whose primary goal is to eventually exact revenge upon her for turning him into a powerful but hideously deformed mock-giant after he tried to force her to make him immortal. | |
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Noble Demon | |
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Noble Demon: In Vasilissa the Beautiful, one of the most iconic tales featuring her, she wants to eat the titular protagonist, but once Vasilissa completes her impossible tasks with the help of her mother's blessing, Baba not only grudgingly lets her go, but even grants her a boon in the form of a flaming skull that incinerates her evil stepfamily. | |
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Iconic Item | |
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Iconic Item: She flies around in a giant mortar and pestle. Some later tales (and toys) depict her flying with the usual for witches — a broomstick. It is common to see Baba riding in the mortar (on the ground), whipping the mortar with the pestle to make it go faster, and using the broom to cover up her tracks. The hut on bird legs is also quite iconic. Less common are her iron teeth. | |
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Because You Were Nice to Me | |
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In some stories the key to her being non-malicious is politeness. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: In The Death of Koschei the Deathless, she pretends to be willing to help Prince Ivan out while looking for one excuse to cut his head off and get it mounted on a pole. | |
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Never Mess with Granny | |
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Never Mess with Granny: She is an old powerful witch after all. Though in some stories, she suffers from Adaptational Wimp. | |
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Sapient House | |
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Sapient House: Her hut is able to move on its own with its chicken legs. | |
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The Fair Folk | |
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Patricia Polacco's children's book Babushka Baba Yaga features the character as a reclusive member of The Fair Folk. Here, she's presented as a kind fairy who has been demonized by humans. She disguises herself as a human grandmother in order to fit in with the nearby village. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: The Sami◊ evidently used this style of architecture, called nili, and usually used for storehouses and barns, to prevent animals from reaching foodstuffs stored inside and stealing them. The legs are usually made from pine stumps and either tarred or smoked to prevent them from rotting. | |
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Wizards Live Longer | |
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Wizards Live Longer: No one knows how old she is, but in some stories she's been around for a very long while. In some stories, however, it is said she ages one year every time she is asked a question. Goes a long way to explain why she lives far away from civilization and is not always too excited to help out. In many stories she is effectively a goddess. For one thing, Day, Sun and Night ride out of the doors of her hut, and are apparently her manservants. | |
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Holy Burns Evil | |
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Holy Burns Evil: Just tell her you are protected by a blessing and she will leave you alone. While technically not holy, it is often explained that she can only eat the flesh of naughty children, and she is somehow forbidden to touch good children. Good children who end up in her clutches are forced to be her slaves and often made to perform an Impossible Task, so if they fail she has the excuse they were being "naughty." This never works. | |
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Fountain of Youth | |
| Baba Yaga / int_9141fba3 | comment |
Fountain of Youth: On occasion, she's shown looking for or using magical blue roses that restore her beauty by being made into tea. Since in some versions she ages with every question, she has a good reason. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: A common one in Slavic folklore, due to her love of child flesh. | |
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Solitary Sorceress | |
| Baba Yaga / int_9793f1b9 | comment |
Solitary Sorceress: One of the probable Trope Codifiers, though the bird legs on her house are an unusual twist. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_9ddf241 | type |
Flaming Skulls | |
| Baba Yaga / int_9ddf241 | comment |
Flaming Skulls: in "Vasilissa the Beautiful", Baba Yaga's fence is adorned with skulls with glowing eyes. The title character's evil stepmother sends her to the Baba's hut to get some fire, but Baba is not about to grant favors easily. When Vasilissa completes the hag's impossible tasks (her late mother's magic helping), Baba lets her go (more like kicks her out when she learns Vasilissa is blessed) and gifts her with one of the skulls to serve as fire. When Vasilissa brings the skull home, its scorching gaze burns her evil steprelatives to ashes. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_9e2c893 | type |
Black Magic | |
| Baba Yaga / int_9e2c893 | comment |
Black Magic: She is served by disembodied shadowy hands and her house is lighted by skulls with glowing eyes. How else do you describe her sorcery? | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_9e943076 | type |
One-Man Army | |
| Baba Yaga / int_9e943076 | comment |
Although she herself does not show up, the titular hitman in John Wick, who used to work for the Russian mafia, is nicknamed "Baba Yaga", which the film translates to "the boogeyman." | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_9f6fb586 | type |
Leitmotif | |
| Baba Yaga / int_9f6fb586 | comment |
Leitmotif: "The Hut on Fowl's Legs" by Modest Mussorgsky from Pictures at an Exhibition, which is a musical tribute to a picture of Baba Yaga's abode. That Other Wiki notes that it is supposed to invoke the hag herself riding on her mortar. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_a8cff6a | type |
Familiar | |
| Baba Yaga / int_a8cff6a | comment |
Familiar: Usually has several, either animals, or her invisible servants, or both. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_b59bbb0c | type |
Moving Buildings | |
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Moving Buildings: In Eastern European folklore and legend, the witch Baba Yaga has a house that can walk around on giant chicken legs. This house has shown up in a number of adaptations. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_b7920c43 | type |
Lost in Translation | |
| Baba Yaga / int_b7920c43 | comment |
Lost in Translation: Some have posited that Baba Yaga's house was originally not on chicken legs at all ("курьи ножки"), but on smoked legs ("курные"), referring to the practice of the wooden struts that supported huts being saturated with smoke to make them resistant to rot, particularly "houses of the dead" where they stored their ancestors' ashes, and that over time the word got corrupted to "курьи." Thus it was just a normal house. More likely it's both, and the word was always a deliberate pun. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
| Baba Yaga / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Baba Yaga often mentions that she eats the overly curious. In some tales, this is explicable by the fact that she ages a year whenever someone asks her a question. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_bd6b86df | type |
Impossible Task | |
| Baba Yaga / int_bd6b86df | comment |
While technically not holy, it is often explained that she can only eat the flesh of naughty children, and she is somehow forbidden to touch good children. Good children who end up in her clutches are forced to be her slaves and often made to perform an Impossible Task, so if they fail she has the excuse they were being "naughty." This never works. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_c09dbbbb | type |
Weaksauce Weakness | |
| Baba Yaga / int_c09dbbbb | comment |
Weaksauce Weakness: In the story of "Vasilissa the Beautiful", she is repulsed by the Blessings of Vasilissa's mother, which not coincidentally, help Vasilissa complete the Impossible Tasks Baba Yaga demands. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_c25b1a4 | type |
Life Drinker | |
| Baba Yaga / int_c25b1a4 | comment |
The Reign of Winter Adventure Path reveals that this is not true. Yaga actually drains her offspring's life force to extend her own immortality. The story kicks off when the current daughter gets suspicious and attempts to conquer all of Golarion in order to usurp her mother, forcing the heroes and Baba Yaga into an Enemy Mine scenario, lest the whole world be frozen. The same adventure path also reveals that Grigori Rasputin is her long-abandoned and highly resentful son, who turns out to be the one holding her captive alongside his distant sister... in WWI-era Siberia. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_cbfd6e47 | type |
Flying Broomstick | |
| Baba Yaga / int_cbfd6e47 | comment |
Flying Broomstick: Sometimes, but she's usually depicted flying with the mortar and pestle. Originally, she wasn't flying either. The tales state clearly that the mortar is walking, the pestle is used as a whip, and the broom is used to smooth over the tracks she leaves. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_d2b59903 | type |
Cool Old Lady | |
| Baba Yaga / int_d2b59903 | comment |
Cool Old Lady: In the stories where she is a helpful character rather than the villain. This is often explained by there being multiple Baba Yagas. Some stories even have the hero seek advice from a Baba Yaga, though this may just be Lampshade Hanging on how frequently she's used as a plot device. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_dd3d1f69 | type |
Wicked Witch | |
| Baba Yaga / int_dd3d1f69 | comment |
Wicked Witch: A fine example of this trope whenever presented as a villainess. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_e1ff8ff6 | type |
Fantasy Kitchen Sink | |
| Baba Yaga / int_e1ff8ff6 | comment |
The French-Canadian youth fantasy novels Amos Daragon, being a textbook example of Fantasy Kitchen Sink, featured an evil old witch named Baya Gaya, very strongly based on the Slavic mythological character (the notes at the end of the novel outright say so). The witch is hired by the god Loki (yes, that Loki) to kill the heroes and she disguises herself as a beautiful young mermaid to do so. It's that kind of book. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_e8e56799 | type |
Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
| Baba Yaga / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Blue-and-Orange Morality: If you take the stories of her as helpful and malicious as the same character, then it would seem she's not precisely evil, but instead operates on a completely different moral standard that places no particular value on human life (She Eats Babies as casually as you or I eat lamb), but certainly respects other virtues | |
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Monster of the Week | |
| Baba Yaga / int_e9604359 | comment |
Baba Yaga is the Monster of the Week in a season 2 episode of both Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!. | |
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Evil Old Folks | |
| Baba Yaga / int_eb9afb9d | comment |
Evil Old Folks: At least in the stories where she is, indeed, evil. | |
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Curiosity Is a Crapshoot | |
| Baba Yaga / int_ee1bd506 | comment |
Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: Baba Yaga sometimes displays a propensity to eat the overly curious. Notably, it's not a good idea to ask her about the spectral disembodied hands serving her in her hut. | |
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| Baba Yaga / int_f76b8969 | type |
Anthropomorphic Personification | |
| Baba Yaga / int_f76b8969 | comment |
Anthropomorphic Personification: In the story of Vasilissa the Beautiful, she has three servants that resemble riders, one that embodies the daybreak, one that is the embodiment of the sun, and a third that embodies night. | |
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Ugly Slavic Women | |
| Baba Yaga / int_fcefb552 | comment |
Ugly Slavic Women: Baba Yaga, the Wicked Witch from Slavic mythology, is an example from the culture itself, though it must be said that she isn't always depicted as a bad character. | |
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