Baba Yaga
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- Etymology [ Et- Tim- mol- logy ]
- History
- Literature
- Although Baba means old woman, Yaga has no direct translation.
- Chicken Legs
- The first recorded reference to Baba Yaga is found inMikhailLomonosov's ''Rossiiskaia grammatika'', or ''Russian Grammar.''
- Pestle and Mortar
- Poet, Nikolay Nekrasov , wrote ''Baba Yaga The Bony-Legged'' in 1840, describing how the devil cooked twelve evil women to create Baba Yaga.
- Vasilisa
- The phrase ''Turn your back to the forest, your front to me'' not only stops the cottage from walking away, it also causes the cabin to turn around, so that the only door faces visitors too lazy to walk around the house themselves.
- Utilized to grind herbs and spices for cooking or medicine, much like cauldrons, pestles and mortars were also allegedly used by sorceresses to brew potions or grind children's bones.
- Alexander Afanasieff wrote ''Vasilisa'' as a part of a collection of Russian folklore. When she was eight, her mother perished and left her a wooden doll.
- Five miles to
- Beware!
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