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Baba Yaga being used as an example for the Cyrillic letter Б, in Alexandre Benois ' ABC-Book. Baba Yaga is an enigmatic or ambiguous character from Slavic folklore (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who has two opposite roles. In some motifs she is described as a repulsive or ferocious-looking old woman who fries and eats children ...
The Tale About Baba-Yaga. The Tale about Baba-Yaga ( Russian: Сказка о Бабе-Яге, romanized : Skazka o Babe-Yage, lit. 'Fairy Tale about Baba-Yaga') is a Russian fairy tale published in a late 18th-century compilation of fairy tales. [1] Variants from oral tradition have been collected in the 19th and 20th centuries from Russian ...
Kashchey the Immortal by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1848–1926. Koshchei (Russian: Коще́й, romanized: Koshchey, IPA: [kɐˈɕːej]), also Kashchei (Russian: Каще́й, romanized: Kashchey, IPA: [kɐˈɕːej]) often given the epithet "the Immortal", or "the Deathless" (Russian: Бессме́ртный), is an archetypal male antagonist in Russian folklore.
Similar to a witch, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who appears as a deformed or ferocious-looking old woman. In Russian fairy tales, Baba Yaga flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, and dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs.
Mikhail Zlatkovsky. Caricature of the revival of paganism in Russia. 1977. A Slavic dragon is any dragon in Slavic mythology, including the Russian zmei (or zmey; змей), Ukrainian zmiy (), and its counterparts in other Slavic cultures: the Bulgarian zmey (), the Slovak drak and šarkan, Czech drak, Polish żmij, the Serbo-Croatian zmaj (), the Macedonian zmej (змеј) and the Slovene zmaj.
Articles involving depictions of Baba Yaga in folklore and fiction. Pages in category "Baba Yaga" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
A typical role of the Firebird in fairy tales is as an object of a difficult quest. The quest is usually initiated by finding a lost tail feather, at which point the hero sets out to find and capture the live bird, sometimes of his own accord, but usually on the bidding of a father or king. The Firebird is a marvel, highly coveted, but the hero ...
Russian scholarship classifies the tale as type SUS 480В*, "Мачеха и падчерица" ("Stepmother and Step-daughter"), of the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS): the heroine is sent to fetch fire from Baba Yaga, and is helped by a magical doll in fulfilling the witch's tasks.