The majority of characters in the stories are female. Some of the stories say that the fire is green. She is also a keeper of fire, and the skulls around her home have an eerie fire in each of them. She is fond of these horsemen, who represent day, sunrise and night, respectively. Keeper of Light and Darkīaba Yaga has three horsemen - a white rider on a white horse, a red rider on a red horse and a black rider on a black horse. She expects respect, and gives grudging respect to people who respect her and are willing to stand up to her and carry out her tasks. She sometimes appears with a male character - Kochey Bessmyertney, who is a sort of Grim Reaper-like figure. In some stories, she has a kind (or at least helpful) side and in at least one, it is shown that she can be lonely and in need of love and company. She can be deceitful and tricky, although sometimes she is honourable and keeps her word once it is given. In short, she presents an unpleasant, frightening appearance.īaba Yaga has a short temper. Her nails are brown, ridged and long, so that she cannot make a fist. She has long greasy hair and a goatee beard. She has a nose that bends down, a chin that curves up, and warts from handling toads. Appearance and Characterīaba Yaga is an old woman. She eats an enormous amount of food - enough for ten men. She uses a large wooden spatula to push them into the oven and then locks the oven door. Her method of transport is a huge mortar and pestle (she uses the pestle to punt the mortar to make it fly) and she uses a broom to erase the marks of where she has been.īaba Yaga sleeps on her enormous oven, which is sometimes used to cook children. There is a fence around it made of human skulls. Its bolts and shutters are made of human bones. She lives in a clearing in the woods 1, in a hut that twirls around on bright yellow chicken legs. She is known as 'old bony legs', and is notorious for eating children. They frequently describe a journey of discovery about the nature of the world or the nature of the self, and some are initiatory stories of young people going through rites of passage which take them from childhood to adulthood.īaba Yaga (properly pronounced Baba Ye- gar, with the emphasis on the second syllable) is a character who appears in hundreds of Russian and Eastern European stories and fairy tales. Myths and fairy tales are often very powerful teaching aids.
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