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In a number of East European myths, a Baba Yaga (there are more than one) is a cannibalistic witch who lives in a hut on the edge of the forest. The hut stands on chicken legs and will only lower itself after Baba Yaga said a certain rhyme. A picket fence surrounds the hut and she places the skulls of her victims on it. For transportation Baba Yaga uses a giant mortar which she drives at high speed across the forest floor by steering the pestle with her right hand and sweeping away all traces of her passage with a broom in her left hand. A host of spirits often follows her.
Baba Yaga is often represented as a little, ugly, old woman with a huge and distorted nose and long teeth. She is also called Jezi-Baba or Baba Yaga Kostianaya Noga ("bone-legs"), referring to the fact that she is rather skinny. She is regarded as the devil's own grandmother.
In old Hungarian folklore, Baba ("old woman") was originally a good fairy but was later degraded to a witch. A Baba Yaga is a hard bargainer, and will threaten to eat those who do not fulfil their part of an agreement.
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In a number of East European myths, a Baba Yaga (there are more than one) is a cannibalistic witch who lives in a hut on the edge of the forest. The hut stands on chicken legs and will only lower itself after Baba Yaga said a certain rhyme. A picket fence surrounds the hut and she places the skulls of her victims on it. For transportation Baba Yaga uses a giant mortar which she drives at high speed across the forest floor by steering the pestle with her right hand and sweeping away all traces of her passage with a broom in her left hand. A host of spirits often follows her.
Baba Yaga is often represented as a little, ugly, old woman with a huge and distorted nose and long teeth. She is also called Jezi-Baba or Baba Yaga Kostianaya Noga ("bone-legs"), referring to the fact that she is rather skinny. She is regarded as the devil's own grandmother.
In old Hungarian folklore, Baba ("old woman") was originally a good fairy but was later degraded to a witch. A Baba Yaga is a hard bargainer, and will threaten to eat those who do not fulfil their part of an agreement.
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According to "Hero's Quest"....
Date: 2001-05-03 10:36 am (UTC):)
Re: According to "Hero's Quest"....
Date: 2001-05-03 11:06 am (UTC)That doesn't sound russian!
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Date: 2001-05-03 10:53 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2001-05-03 11:05 am (UTC)I'm a big fan of russian hystory and folklore... (hack, almost any region, really)
Is your friend skinny?
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Date: 2001-05-03 11:58 am (UTC)Well, maybe not now. She just delivered a baby about 3 weeks ago.
I like Russian history too. It was my major, actually. :)
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Date: 2001-05-03 12:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-05-03 01:30 pm (UTC)Sounds like one of my ex-girlfriends.
heh.
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Date: 2001-05-03 04:03 pm (UTC)Memories...
Date: 2001-05-03 11:35 pm (UTC)'twas built inside a tesseract, and a real mindfucker.
Who knew?
Re: Memories...
Date: 2001-05-04 07:52 am (UTC)