Baba Yaga - Mythillogical Podcast
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- On today’s episode, Charles and Crofty cross the thrice-nine lands to delve into the lore of one of Slavic mythology’s most enigmatic figures, and discover that her roots run far deeper than the wicked witch of popular culture.
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Baba Yaga is a character in Slavic folklore, not only Russian. Such generalization of everything Slavic as Russian is very annoying to many Slavs.
@@noanastasia222 Baba Yaga and Dyado Yagosh. 😁
Another variant holds that "Baba Yaga" is not a name but a title -- the title of the queen of the Slavic witch-cult. Her chcken-legged cabin was actually built on a platform on top of two very old trees whose root-buttresses stood up out of the ground. It had doors (or windows) which looked out to all four directions. Her flying motar-and-pestle was really a hot-air balloon. And of course one could only get into her cabin by climbing a concealed rope ladder.
That fence topped with skulls was her trophy-wall. Anyone wanting an audience with her had to bring her a food-animal, often a stag or a sheep; she'd feast on the meat, keep the hide, and mount the head on her front gate. As for her being a cannibal and general villain, well, that's what the Christian church generally thought of witches -- or any other Pagans.
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13 minutes of nothing??? thank you for sparing me that
I never noticed this before, but listening to theses Baba Yaga stories made me realize she has quite a lot in common with the "Goddess of the Underwold" archetype. In particular, Hel, Ereshkigal, and Izanami have many parallels with her, such as the rotting/unsightly appearance, or setting up very specific conditions for fulfilling tasks, which can either reunite loved ones, or permanently separate them.
It's quite fascinating that all of these myths, separated by distance and time, all seem to draw on some kind of ancient proto-religion's iconography. It's like the "Slaying of the Serpent" motif, but less obvious.
This makes me so happy to see. My grandmother is an immigrant from Poland and i grew up with stories of Baba Yaga. My first tattoo was actually a big arm piece of her and her house.
Respect to your Baba.
@@murrayscott9546 His grandma is Polish, not Russian, so it would be "babcia". If you call any Polish woman "baba" you will probably end up being hit with whatever she is holding in her hand XD
15:47 - The oven is also a character sometimes... or a vehicle :)
The Russian oven - "petch", is what you may call a "mass heater". It is very traditional across the Slavic culture. At colder regions the oven was constructed with a flat top, to serve as a bed for the cold winter nights, called a "lezhanka"
This is the first time I heard of this. I always wondered how the very cold climate peoples made themselves comfortable. Thanks
Its so important that the word "bes-pechnyi", literally without oven, refers to someone reckless and carefree.
@@Katya_Lastochkahm, in my language (slovak) "bezpečný" means "safe" and "nebezpečný" means "dangerous".
In south Slavic mythology there is a similar character called Baba Roga - Horned grandma. She is described as having a large horn on her forehead and is commonly used to scare the mischievous kids "If you don't behave Baba Roga will come and take you". There is no folk stories or myths with her in them other than that.
Can second this, Baba Roga was often used to scare us and there was even a homeless women in our neighborhood that my entire class in school thought was Baba Roga and we were verry very scared of her.
I am Russian and Baba Roga (roga means "horns" in Russian and horned would be "rogataya" sounds even scarier than Baba Yaga 😅
Slavic mythology has some really cool stuff. Would you guys be interested in doing Icelandic/Norse stuff in the future as well? Trolls and all that really fun stuff.
also it's interesting that in Japanese baba also means an elderly woman (but a more casual or even derogatory term for it), and it can also be used to mean old hag or witch, so you have characters like Yubaba in Spirited Away.
@@fauxshowyo when i read japanese fables to learn japanese, i found a lot of similarities in their stories about heroic young men to russian stories. That heroes always had strange origin, often adopted by a pair of old people, unusually fast growth, supernatural strength, and in both, russian and japanese, hero receives from his parents (often asks himself) a weapon before going on his adventure. Most of the time he meets someone on his path, who will accompany him, often after a battle.
In both countries' fables hero have a generic name, in japanese is some form of ~taro, and in russian most of the time is Ivan.
Also there were japanese tales about a "magical wife", just like russian "princess frog". Story usually revolves around series of tasks, either hard or impossible, given to the husband. He tell about them to his wife, and she says to don't worry, and completes the task when he is not looking.
Similarity of the themes in the cultures that were not in tight contact is really interesting.
@@alexkozliayev9902 you (Charles and Crofty also) should look the works of V. Propp "Morphology of the tale" and "Historical Roots of the wonder tale", where he compares and classifies all the plots, suggesting that fairy tales are artifacts of the ancient rites of passage.
@@undeadd666 definitely! I had en eye for that book for some time already
if they point out the dwarves are elves that would be great. love lotr but man
In Poland, there's also a children game "Raz, dwa, trzy, Baba Jaga patrzy!" (means: "One, two, three, Baba Yaga is looking"). It's similar to english Statues/Grandmother's Footsteps. I loved to play it with my grandparents. It was fun but otherwise Baba Jaga was definetely the scariest creature from their bedtime stories. Old, ugly, skinny witch who lives in forests and eats children. Adults in Poland also liked to tell their naughty children things like: "if you won't be nice behaving/silent, Baba Jaga will come and take you". Worked pretty well on me, lol.
Hm.... could this be where the witch in Hansel and Greta originates or is based on...?
Referring to the “daughters” around 25 minutes; I believe these are the daughters of other people’s daughters, along the lines of “Your farm will have a bountiful harvest, in exchange for your daughter.” And they are usually similar to slaves in the tales I’ve heard & read.
These Mythillogical episodes are great for sending me right to sleep, they're so cozy... but then in the morning I just want to watch it again and hear everything I missed!
Me too Bernie.
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Literally what I’m here for🛌😴
beleve it or not you brain remembers it somehow
In Romanian folklore and fairy tales we have our own rendition of Baba Yaga, she is called Baba Cloanța (ugly old woman, teethless old woman) or Muma Pădurii ( the evil woman of the forest). Great work, really interesting !
Scrolled through a whole comment section (although without checking a replies) to check if maybe someone already mentioned this, but haven't notice anything, so here's some more info on the probable mythological-anthropological origin for the Baba Yaga.
First of all - there is some evidence that large part of it originated in Finno-Ugric cultures and was later spread through cultural exchange and in more modern times combined with Slavic stuff and common-european concepts.
I think best part to start would be Baba Yaga's Hut on a bird legs - it's most probably originated from burial tradition from cultures that lived in the forested and swampy areas there elevated hut-like structures would be constructed either using trees, like a child's treehouse or on the stilts-pillars, there bodies would be placed. It was situated on some distance from the settlement and entrance would be placed opposite side - facing the forest, in believe that if some corpse would be reanimated as a bad spirit (which is universal concept for humans across the world I believe) it would wonder towards the forest and wouldn't find a way into the settlement.
Older women are believed to be commonly responsible for a preparation of the body, so first role of the Baba Yaga may be just a caretaker lady, which later transformed into a psychopomp deity. This older women usually were responsible for traditional herbal medicine and stuff - so there is mortar and pestle comes from and later associated with witch concept.
Part with the cannibalism might have come from a instance there some bad or mean old woman was buried and as it's common with vurdalak-vampire lore - was believed to be reanimated as a bad flesh eating, child abducting monster or bad spirit.
And of course later fairytales are just mashup of tales from other cultures.
Sorry for my not perfect English, not my native language, hope it would be helpful or interesting for someone.
average "Sorry for my bad english" post
Being ethnically Russian myself, I was very surprised to find this podcast. It strokes my Russian ego 😂 When i read the story about the girl and the evil step mother and the lousy dad to my children, i also always feel strange at the line where he shoots the wife 😳🤷🏻♀️ So I actually change it and pretend to read that he banished her instead. Thank you for your wonderful work. Also, it was interesting what you said about Кощей... him being the deathless as opposed to “immortal”, because in Russian there’s just one word. There’s no different word for immortal. Very fascinating to listen to Britisch analysis of “my childhood” folklore :) thank you
Shooting someone is way nicer than "banishing" them in most contexts.
When you shoot someone, you show that you care about them at least a little bit. You're making a decision on whether they live or die rather than leaving it up to chance. Also you limit how bad this person might have it in the future. Dying quickly through a bullet is better than, for example, being persecuted or starving to death.
Furthermore "banishing" an evil person might harm other people, who later come in contact with them.
Well, I am just some guy off the internet but I think it's kinda unhealthy to just pretend to yourself that the story ended differently. I can see why you would find the original ending to be uncomfortable, but in the end it's just a story and in this sense an opportunity to overcome whatever makes you behave in this slightly bizarre manner
@@MrCmon113 twisted logic. shooting is taking a life. you're making a decision, true... that is not yours to make.
the "limiting how bad they're gonna have it" stuff is even more twisted. as long as the person is alive they have options. banishment, even in the middle ages, was far from a death sentence. how would you feel if a random person took it upon themselves to "limit how bad" (they think!!) _you_ are going to have it _and_ thought they were making the more moral choice?
@@absoluteaficionado515 it's hard to appreciate for a westerner how grisly and dark this stuff (also Perrot, Brothers Grimm etc) can be in the original as all of that has been sanitized by Disney for you.
the medieval and faux-medieval stuff that are fairy tales is from a different era with different views on pedagogy. (Tolstoy, too, wrote some nasty stuff for kids, come think of it.) this is an approach to education that seeks to shock and traumatize (working-class) children into becoming supposedly moral people.
I understand changing the story. When I tell my kids Jack and the Beanstock I try to come up with a back story that makes Jack into less of a thief. Ie, it was his dad's gold that he is stealing back. 😒😆
In moden Polish "baba" means an old woman, not necessarily an evil one. It is also a pejorative term for any woman that is either ugly or unpleasant, however it can also be used as a endearment in some cases (context dependant). Yaga (or Jaga in PL spelling) is a augmentative form of a given name Jadwiga.
Of course Baba Jaga herself is present in our folk tales, usually mirroring the ones you told in this podcast, albeit with a local twist on them. Sometimes in Polish version of Grimm's "Hensel and Gretel" (PL "Jaś i Małgosia"), Baba Jaga takes place of the evil witch living in the house of gingerbread which in turn, in some versions, is placed on the hen legs (but doesn't turn around) which is an interesting example of how different folk traditions of east and west have been mixed together in here.
In modern day Russian/Ukrainian it literally means woman but was indeed a synonym of word "stara"/"staruha" before
In the balkans we sth very similar. Only she is called Baba Roga (old woman with a horn from her forehead).
In Greek an old woman is called “gria” and a very old and hence ugly made by especially long old age is called “babogria” which is neutral really, but would be considered insult when addressed to a woman. Another way is calling her “gria babo”. But the second one has no negative and more a positive spin in it, meaning in a way industrious and hard working making staff also, keeping a clean house, making food and sweets.
I always thought that in Polish the "Jaga/Yaga" part comes from the same root that the word "jędza" [sounds something like yan-de-za], meaning witch. After centuries of language transformations "yaga" could become "yan-de-za".
@@thenewkhan4781 Nope. Those are literally two different words. Jędza was originally a demon in ancient Slavic mythology.
It's so interesting to see how the characters I grew up with and are so regular to me interest so many people. Every description or explanation I heard so far are accurate, but there is always busy that something missing. I like that now people are looking into her dual nature, more than anything I think she represents life. It's all about how you approach it, it can be dangerous, it can be tricky but if you do everything correctly you can learn a lot from it and walk away with the girl and the Golden Needle in the haystack.
My first exposure to Baba Yaga was the video game Hero’s Quest aka Quest For Glory 1: So You Want To Be A Hero, and I was always so deeply intrigued by the hut and character. To get it to sit down you say “Hut of Brown, Now Sit Down.
Classic! Great vid fellas!
The version of this i heard when i was a kid was a mean old woman in the woods who nibbled at your toes when you sleep, only if you are bad of course :(
So much of the imagery contain Psilocybin or other psychedelic and poisonous mushrooms.
I love Baba Yaga and grew up on her stories. Thank you so much for your deep dive into her backstory. I'm going to watch these two videos several times.
The only way I feel like this could have been better would be 'chapter descriptions' to make navigation easier for repeat viewers. Come to think of it, that would also make it easier to turn your videos into clips for wider distribution.
Chapters are good. I'll begin a video to fall asleep to then watch the part I missed another time.
Also, two videos? What's the other one?
I remember playing "1,2,3, Baba Yaga is looking!" ALL the time as a kid!
My favorite episode! This is the second time I've listened to it. As an American with eastern European grandparents, I absolutely love these stories of folklore. More please!
36:30 Her father was Polish, but her mother was probably German.
The amount of effort you put in is amazing. Thank you
Nice overall. You might be interested to learn that there was even what could be called a starter-kit published in Dragon magazine (AD&D-themed publication, #83 if I'm not mistaken, multi-page layout detailing a multi-planar home with a much larger interior than the exterior) involving her magical hut. They attempted to craft a way to incorporate her unique flavor in larger role-playing (part of a greater fictional world and all), even going so far as to attempt to back story a couple of daughters (note here which you might consider: not her own daughters but rather according to another telling of some legends that she would often receive children as offerings under specific circumstances - because poor families couldn't provide for them - to be raised by her rather than eaten providing them instruction until they could make their own way, something about not wanting to offend deities that look out for destitute people as some form of personal superstition) who you could possibly meet. The way that the authors of the module saw it, she was a demi-god class with some outer plane connections which might have been demonic or other monstrous. You were not meant to slay her but to encounter situations where you might have to get her help for some other quest.
They used Baba Yaga in the second season of the Witcher. They even used the hut and the chant
My granny was Serbian from Bosnia and as I was a child she was telling me the stories of "Baba Roga" - Rog means horn but I don't remember that she would ever describe her with horns.
Precisley, I am from Croatia and can confirm that. In south Slavic areas she is called Baba Roga, but it seems to be the same character. Sometimes, as the name suggests, she can be presented with one horn which might be a deviation, but most of other details are common.
Baba Yaga became a fixture in my childhood from the Quest for Glory series
She came to me in the best "Choose Your Own Adventure" story that the 80's produced.
Those were great
OMG, I still have a map I made from that game. I loved that game so much
The grimm fairytale Frau Holle, is almost the same as the Baba Yaga story about the sister and stepsister (1:10:00
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I saw Lost Girl! It was a pretty cheesy show, but it was fun to try to catch all the myths/folklore they put in there. Kenzie, the human, was the best character.
Baba in old language means woman,and Yaga thats short from Yagoda,we write Jagoda (common name).The character is not strictly Russian but Slavic.
"Bábushka" (granny) has the stress on the first syllable. "Babúshka" (head scarf) while spelled the same, has the stress on the second syllable.
Love that I was looking for a new episode to listen to yesterday and got one today :D
Very nice show. Baba Yaga may have some influense from "Pohjan Akka" the witch of the Northlland, in finnic myth, but only vaguely. A character like this could well be influensed by every mother in law.
Please do more videos about Baba Yaga or other Slavic myth, like the Domovoy.
3:40 I recognize that illustration, those books were awesome
It looks surprisingly close to my mother.
This is a podcast I've always wanted to listen to stoned but never actually thought would exist! I'm excited to learn lol
1:18:54 with a few variations on the names, this story sounds a lot like the Hungarian folktale Fehérlófia (son of the white horse)!! the story is pretty much the same, but the three giants are Tree Skinner, Rock Crumbler and Iron Kneader !
Thank you! thank you for music in the beginning
great episode! I never knew there was so much to this figure
Was gonna give you guys a go whilst I slept...then you go bringing up Lost Girl and now I'm sold. No sleep tonight
Baba Yaga is a powerful crone with a mysterious origins with a trinity of goddesses like Queen Mab of Irish folklore
Her using the oven as a bed is totally normal. The stoves were kept in the middle of the home to heat--possibly two floors--with the chimney going up through the centre of the home. Baba Yaga would have used the second floor or an upper level as part of her bedroom. Thanks for this wonderful podcast!
When you say “a Baba Yaga” and “The Baba Yaga”, you have to understand that that is a matter of English translation. Slavic languages have no definite article. There is no a or the, so it would appear grammatically identical to a given name and the addition of a or the would be based on context clues. A could sort of exist if they say she is “one Baba Yaga” but I’m not familiar enough with the folklore to know whether she is ever explicitLy referred to as one of many
That was awesome! Thank you so much! XoxoxoxoxoX
Would love to see an episode on the sack of Jerusalem in the first century ad. It's fascinating to me. Thanks for the great shows though. Love to see a new episode
"Mare emerges from the depths". For some reason horses are constantly associated with the sea and water in Indo-European traditions.
Baba Yaga is in the Castlevania remake on the Xbox 360 / PS3.
lol had baba yagas hut once , it's one of the coolest items in d&d
Some of these stories or references and descriptions, remind me of the fallen angels, and giants' stories.
It’s all fallen history greek gods all of them are fallen story’s and they’re offspring
thank youuuu loved this video
there was this rhyme / song that I used to sing about Baba Yaga it goes like: babka Joshka boney foot, fell of a stove, broke her foot
The story at 1:14:00 sounds a lot like Frau Holle in Grimms Tales. Apparently it's a type of tale "of good and naughty girls (or well- and bad-behaved)"
Okay maybe I should just finish the Video before commenting
lol.
Frau Holle and Baba Yaga probably have a common ancestor in the hoary dark of ancient aeons, but they aren't really interchangeable with one another these days...
But Gods what a buddy movie that could make!!!
OSPs new Halloween video on the Wild Hunt covers some theoretical origins of Frau Holle too, Baba Yaga isn't mentioned but interesting nonetheless
I'm amazed at how much Quest for Glory got right.
Thank you.
Wait, this was the creature in the episode of Supernatural just over a week ago!!
44:55 - 'ta'en' is a contraction of 'taken;' it is used in poetry where only one syllable will fit. The meaning is the czar was taken captive.
i first became aware of baba yaga when playing an early online computer game on prodigy (super early dial up internet). my character came across the hut on chicken legs. then i head reference to her but didn't see her as a character in anything until reading neil gaiman (i can't remember if it was sandman, books of magic or both). then i've looked for more since then. thanks for the resources.
4:00 all I can see is feudal Japan Homer Simpson about to kick ass
Host? Co-host? Vice co-host! I chuckled
"Jack Frost [Morozko]" (1964) has a weird mix of the Baba Yaga stories and a very goofy portrayal of a Baba Yaga. I remember watching it on MST3K and being horribly confused by everything going on.
Wouldn’t pestel and mortar be associated not with common household object but a medicine woman/person attributes(mysterious, magical)?
Love the pictures of the peacocks--the national bird of Poland, and of course the many Magic Mushrooms!! Interesting fact--Peter the Great also prided himself in having a special guard made up of Giants, for whom he had scoured the lands of Russia. Makes one wonder about whether they were just tall, or whether they resembled the biblical giants, as Goliath. Also, bagpipes are common Polish instruments.
I'm Polish, Baba Jaga is a witch, it basically means witch of the woods
Thankyou so much for this deep dive. I adore Baba Yaga and it's so hard to find anything other than a re telling of the story's. But there is so so much more to her and what she represents. Did I mention that Baba Yaga is my life goal?
The myths and legends podcast does a few really good stories about Baba Yaga
Baba Tags featured in a PC game called Quest for glory or Heroes Quest depending on your region.
Great game and Sierra the publisher were fantastic at drawing on mythology and fairy tales and integrating them into the plot.
She seems to me to have some aspects in common with the Gaelic Cailleach : the old 'veiled one', widow woman of winter, who keeps the maiden of Spring/Summer captive OR transforms into her every year.
Finland has its own religion based on recorded songs and oral tradition.
"Kalevala" is about old shaman who does magic by singing and playing this string instrument made of jawbone of a fish.
Adventures ensue. Should be translated, as well as some studies of it.
But we don't use the term Baba Yaga in most of Finland, "Louhi" might be the closest, and Noita /andor Akka of course.
The description of her with claws, or metal hands sounds more like Black Annis.
Thanks to you guys I looked up the lost girl scene and she says “no baby yoda!” In the scene! What a weird accidental Easter egg
You boys are awesome
I recognize some of the symbology in the pome and other things you related as alchemy allegory. Putting 12 in the mortar and blowing steam across it is a chemical process with the substances mentioned a lot in alchemy texts.. magneta and magnesia get mentioned as connected with alchemy... obviously magnet but there are many other uses for the substances. I don't remember which is which but manganese and magnesium. Modern people changed the names but one is #12 on the periodic table and the other 35( I think). Whirlwind with iron is magnetism and horses electric on ground level as opposed to birds or mountains which are high electric voltage and dark serpents dragons underground negative.
The Danish Sun-Chariot ( circa 1400 Bc) is a religious Model with figure of a Woman, holding a huge vessel over her head. This suggests some possibilities. Perhaps Some Stories of Pagan Traditions are intertwined into The tales of the Baba Yaga.
The Mortar and the Giant height of Baba Yaga might be living Memories of a Pagan Parade for Pre Christian Slavic Goddesses. In New Orleans we have similar Effigies for Carnival.
My great great great grandmother was a Baba Yaga. I actually have a very old photo of her. It’s creepy. She’s only about 40 in it, but looks more like late 60s.
«domovoy» could also be an interesting episode.
Baba Yaga is present not only in the Russian folk tales but in Bulgarian too. I am not sure if it is throughout the whole of Eastern Europe.
Yes, it is.
in romanian there is some baba cloanța (baba big toothed or baba sharp toothed)
very much so
So u telling in John wick they calling him a wicked witch
Yeah, Baba Jaga is like an universal Slavic thing. No matter where you go, this mortart-flying vyedma follows.
so true, we know her in northern Poland which was never under Russian culture influence and I also know some southern Slavic people who know this character although under a slightly different name. It's no just a Russian folklore. Definetely a common Slavic thing :)
Id love like soft music like the beginning playing in the background just ever so softly. I dont know about anyone else but I fall asleep to this videos, I've listened to this one atleaat 15 times if not more honestly. This could just be me though I know alot of people may not like music during a podcast either but maybe during the actual stories being told. Either way still love it.
Also no worries about it being short podcasts I love them long and so does the you tube algorithm because that's how I found you thru my recommendations:)
Yaaaeeeh! Yeah . I'm Russian and i was greatly astonished when i found this video!Thank you !
It is interesting how by Baba Yaga and also the Russian father Xmas Father Frost both reward 'good traits' and punish bad ones arbitrarily. Father Frost turns a girl into a princess for not complaining, but turns that girl's step sister into a pig for complaining of cold (when asked if she is cold even). Baba Yaga and Father Frost are not so far removed from each other.
Went to sub and realized I already have. You all have a Fantastic way of telling a story. Great work 👍
Great show, both informative and entertaining. Piqued my interest as to what other topics may have already been covered, though my preference is more towards Nordic, Germanic and British mythologies.
Very good episode :) Greetings from Poland!
Don't know if you've made this connection or not, but in Joyce's masterpiece, *Finnegans Wake*, the first "thunderword" begins with this same series of consonant/vowel sounds and is associated with the female character that Joyce later calls the "prankquean," who, in turn, is associated with what Joyce interprets as the "first technology": clothing (the extension of skin), as well as the great and venerable Humpty Dumpty.
"The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarroninkonnbronntonner-ronntuonnthunntrovarthounawnakawntoohoohoordenenthur-nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the pfjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in uest of his tumptytumtoes: and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since devlinfirst loved livvy." (page 3, which is actually the first page of the book).
The fact that the word starts with the "first consonant" followed by the first vowel is correctly rendered, although vowels weren't written for at least half a millennium after the invention of consonants. The first word of the name, with an extra "ba" is followed by dalgharagh which could be rendered as something like 'dalyara' or 'dalyarag' or even 'dalgarag'. But remember, this is the sound uttered at the "first fall" by the thunder, which is always associated with the lightning as its 'voice'.
WOMEN WHO RUN WITH WOLVES was a compilation of folk tales written by a Jungian psychologist. Superb!
Not just Russian, most of the Slavic peoples know it.
Baba Roga in the south Slavic world (if that's even the same thing idk)
Very interesting topic! Thanks for the podcast!
In south Slavic countries such as Serbia or Croatia she’s known as Baba Roga which means something like horned grandmother 😃
I heard the 'one strike/hit with a sword and not a 2nd' in a Welsh folk tale yesterday, also the Little Bear story sound awfully like Rapunzel, Im guessing it comes from that? Also the Red, White and Black horsemen guarding a house and being night and morning etc, Ive heard that before but cant think where?
Very interesting. Thank you!
ill try to find a picture of a wood stove like we have here in Quebec ...not sure but something tells me that its the same kind of stove we use to have here back in the old days
Thank you so much! New subscriber here.
Any mention of the Amanita Muscaria fungi shown in one of the pictures?
I loved the show Lost Girl.
This spring, I heard how a Ukrainian grannie saw a drone hovering near her apt. window. She took it out with a well-aimed jar of pickled tomatoes! Baba Yaga smiled! A local reporter said d that the Russians were nervous about women in eastern Ukraine, believing that many were witches.
She’s ambiguous she sometimes helps people who seek her
In India, baba means grand father, or father, or any elderly and respected person.
You India? Grand father or father means baba.
Being chased by a 15ft Baba Yaga riding a pestle and mortal is a horrifying image