Baba YagaБаба-Яга · the witch of the wood
The iron-toothed hag who flies in a giant mortar, steering with a pestle and sweeping her tracks away with a birch broom, and lives in a hut that spins on chicken legs deep in the forest.
Context
Neither wholly evil nor good: Baba Yaga devours some who come to her and rewards others. She is the forest’s own terrible wisdom.
Appears in
📖 Afanasyev’s Russian Fairy Tales🎬 a fixture of fantasy & film
Illustration: Bilibin, Vasnetsov & the Russian golden age · public domain
The Night Parade
20 beingsBaba YagaБаба-Яга · the witch of the wood
KoscheiКощей · the deathless
Vasilisa the BeautifulВасилиса · the doll-blessed
The FirebirdЖар-птица · the glowing bird
RusalkaРусалка · the water-maiden
Sirin & AlkonostСирин · Алконост · birds of joy and sorrow
The Snow MaidenСнегурочка · the snow-child
VodyanoyВодяной · the water-master
The Grey WolfСерый волк · the helper
The LeshyЛеший · the forest-lord
DomovoiДомовой · the house-spirit
GamayunГамаюн · the prophetic bird