Baba Yaga

Proper noun

Meaning

Baba Yaga

(Slavic mythology) In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a hag who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder. She behaves ambivalently and may be either amiable or hostile.

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Examples

In Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (2010), she used a magical crone from Slavic folklore as a lens through which to view contemporary women’s lives. Source: Internet

I think this may well become one of my favorite Baba Yaga retellings. Source: Internet

They also tend to doubt the existence of Baba Yaga and the Firebird. Source: Internet

Think of a female, The Prince and the Pauper, intertwined with a fiercely endearing Baba Yaga, searching to save a Firebird and mother Russia, while controlling an ice dragon for the world's survival. Source: Internet

The Baba Yaga brings her ladle and gives him another portion. Source: Internet

I’ve wanted to include Baba Yaga in one of these — I just couldn’t think of the right matchup. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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