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	RED ~ The Spirit of the Divine - Los Angeles CA
		Baba Yaga (pronounced: bah-bye'yegg-ah) is, in Slavic mythology, the wild woman, the dark lady, and mistress of magick.
		In Russian tales, Baba Yaga is portrayed as a witch who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder and sweeping away the tracks behind her with a broom made out of silver birch.
		Baba Yaga comes across her, and demands she perform seemingly impossible tasks (such as separating poppy seeds from a pile of dirt) in exchange for the flame.
	www.redspirit.net (499 words)

	Baba Yaga
		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.
		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.
		Baba Yaga is often represented as a little, ugly, old woman with a huge and distorted nose and long teeth.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/b/baba_yaga.html (210 words)

	Babushka Baba Yaga
		Although Baba Yaga is known throughout Russia as a "terrible, horrible" creature that eats children, she is really a very sweet woman who exhausts her days watching in admiration of the village babushkas.
		When Baba Yaga’s identity is revealed at last, the book reminds readers, "Those who judge one another on what they hear or see, and not on what they know of them in their hearts, are fools indeed!" Although this lesson is stated plainly within the text, the story is filled with valuable lessons for children.
		Baba Yaga returned to the forest because she was afraid that if Natasha, Victor, and the other babushkas discovered who she was, they would reject her.
	www.patriciapolacco.com /books/babayaga (1618 words)

	Russian Fairy Tales (Part II) by Helen Pilinovsky — Autumn 2004 Journal of Mythic Arts, Endicott Studio
		Baba Yaga's domain is the forest, widely acknowledged as a traditional symbol of change and a place of peril, where she acts as either a challenger or a helper to those innocents who venture into her realm.
		In such stories, typically, the protagonists fall into Baba Yaga's hands by breaking some rule of the forest, or abusing her hospitality, and are assisted or advised by woodland creatures whom they have met and befriended along the way.
		Vladimir Propp compared Baba Yaga's role as mistress of the forest and its denizens to a parallel figure from the Indic Rig Veda: it is likely that Baba Yaga is a amalgam of numerous archetypes, incorporating elements of rulers of the forest and underworld mistresses in a single entity.
	www.endicott-studio.com /rdrm/rrBabaYaga.html (994 words)

	Baba Yaga - Call of the Wilderness
		Baba Yaga is the fearsome creature, the crooked woman whose nose is hooked like a bird of prey.
		The Baba Yaga is often depicted as an evil old hag who eats humans, especially children, but she is known by many to be a wise, prophetic old woman.
		A Baba Yaga is a hard bargainer, and will threaten to eat those who do not fulfil their part of an agreement.
	www.outbackonline.net /Advent2006/Advent2006_Day19.BabaYaga.html (912 words)

	Origins of Baba-Yaga and Vasilisa the Fair (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Slavic myths, Baba Yaga is the wild woman or dark lady of magic and in Russian folklore there are many stories about her.
		Baba Yaga is interesting, because, although she is described as a terrifying old witch, she is still wise and powerful; wild, cruel but sometimes also kind.
		Baba Yaga helps Vasilisa by giving her a light; because she faces her fear and listens to her intuition (the doll), Vasilisa gets a better life.
	myths.e2bn.net /mythsandlegends/origins117-baba-yaga-and-vasilisa-the-fair.html (936 words)

	Baba Yaga (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Baba Yaga is the old woman of autumn, the archetype of the fearsome witch.
		Baba Yaga flies through the air in a mortar, rowing with a pestle, or in a cauldron, sweeping the traces of her path with a broom.
		Baba Yaga represents the power of old age, the power of the archetype of witch, and most of all, the power of the cycles of life, death and rebirth.
	www.lunaea.com /goddess/power/babayaga.html (156 words)

	Strange Weather - What is Baba Yaga Trying to Tell Us?
		To the Slavs, Mother Nature is known as Baba Yaga, and her presence is evident in the weather.
		Perhaps like the ancient Slavic daughters who enrolled in Baba Yaga's Nature pedagogy with their daily life practices, for seven years I have taken my dogs on a daily walk in the temperate rainforest, where we play on the threshold between Baba Yaga/Mother Nature as transitions from the segmented modern living to profound natural connections.
		Baba Yaga's classrooms are the forests sheltered by massive intertwining branches iconic of cosmological regenerative forces in Mother Nature that inform us about the ritual drama and ritual dynamics.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /anderson_baba_yaga.htm (1187 words)

	Channel Your Inner Goddess: Baba Yaga - California Psychics
		Baba Yaga's relatives are known by the same name, and many stories reveal that a woman is actually a Baba Yaga in disguise.
		Baba Yaga is a hard bargainer, known to eat those who didn't fulfill their end of an agreement.
		Baba Yaga derives her power from her maturity and represents the freedom that accompanies the death of the ego.
	www.californiapsychics.com /articles/Features/667/article.aspx?olnPref=classic&ContentID=667 (896 words)

	Baba Yaga Summary
		In Russian tales, Baba Yaga is portrayed as a witch who flies through the air in a mortar using the pestle as a rudder sweeping away the tracks behind her with a broom made out of silver birch.
		In one folk tale a young girl, Vasilisa, is sent to visit Baba Yaga on an errand and is enslaved by her, but the hag's servants — a cat, a dog, a gate and a tree — help Vasilisa to escape because she has been kind to them.
		Baba Yaga flies around a construction site in her cauldron in the Konami NES game, Monster in My Pocket, being one of the action figures in that series.
	www.bookrags.com /Baba_Yaga (1803 words)

	Baba Yaga
		Usually, Baba Yaga is a frightening Witch who lives in the middle of a very deep forest, in a place which is often difficult to find unless a magic clew (a ball of yarn or thread) or a magic feather shows the way.
		Baba Yaga’s hut is often surrounded by fence made of human bones and topped with human skulls with eyes.
		Very often Baba Yaga has her hut is protected by hungry dogs or is being watched over by evil geese-swans or is being guarded by a fl cat.
	www.barnyardcraft.com /bab_yaga.htm (554 words)

	Warphead.com - The Baba Yaga - cryptozoo - Creepy News & Urban Legends
		Warphead.com - The Baba Yaga - cryptozoo - Creepy News & Urban Legends
		In Russian tales, Baba Yaga is portrayed as a witch who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder and sweeping away the tracks behind her with a broom made out of silver birch.
		In the folk tale "Vasilissa the Beautiful", the young girl of the title is sent to visit Baba Yaga on an errand and is enslaved by her, but the hag's servants — a cat, a dog, a gate and a tree — help Vasilissa to escape because she has been kind to them.
	www.warphead.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=854 (564 words)

	Vasalisa and Baba Yaga - an Act!vated Folktale
		Baba Yaga was quite shocked that anyone could have cleaned the fireplace in such a short time.
		Baba Yaga gave her the doll, and as soon as her back was turned, Vasalisa was asking for advice.
		Baba Yaga refused to eat a good child, so she sent Vasalisa on her way with her doll and the fire.
	www.activated-storytellers.com /folktales/Vasalisa_and_Baba_Yaga.html (1776 words)

	Baba Yaga - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Baba Yaga, a witch in Russian and Slavonic folktales, said to be the devil's grandmother.
		She is known as Ienzababa in Polish and Jazi Baba in Czech,...
		Ali Baba, in folklore, the hero of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” in the collection of stories known in English as the Arabian Nights.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Baba_Yaga.html (101 words)

	Monsters At Play: Baba Yaga Review
		Yaga stops by Valentina's apartment and seductively caresses her favorite camera putting some sort of spell on it.
		I'm sure it all sounds a bit odd and silly, but the fact is, that Baba Yaga is based on a line of adult comics and this vibe is carried successfully throughout the film.
		Baba Yaga came as a truly pleasant surprise to me. It's an oddball mod flick with great characters and a bizarre twisting storyline.
	www.monstersatplay.com /review/dvd/b/baba.php (986 words)

	Baba Yaga \| Encyclopedia of Religion
		BABA YAGA, known in Russian folklore as a witch and an ogress, is the ancient goddess of death and regeneration of Slavic mythology, with roots in the pre-Indo-European matrilinear pantheon.
		Baba Yaga never walks; she either flies in a fiery mortar or lies in her hut on top of the oven, on a bench, on the floor, or stretched from one end of the hut to the other.
		Baba Yaga is also the "mother of winds," analogous to the German Frau Holle.
	www.bookrags.com /research/baba-yaga-eorl-02 (458 words)

	Baba Yaga - Marvel Database
		Baba Yaga captured Captain Britain and attempted to subvert Meggan, whose burgeoning shape-shifting powers almost allowed her to succumb.
		Baba Yaga and her hose was totally destroyed in the confrontation.
		The full powers of the woman known as Baba Yaga remains unknown, but she has exhibited magical powers such as reanimating the dead and manipulating earth and wood, and possibly powers of mesmerism.
	www.marveldatabase.com /Baba_Yaga (365 words)

	BABA YAGA
		Baba Yaga is obviously a witch, yet her motivations are never really clear.
		Baba Yaga seems to be her ringside manager.
		As the witch Baba Yaga, Carroll Baker is rather leaden and robotic.
	www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/baba_yaga.htm (977 words)

	About Baba Yaga Productions
		Baba Yaga, the traditional Russian woman who lives in a "hut on fowl's legs", can be both hideous and beautiful.
		Baba Yaga's hut lies in the deepest, darkest part of the forest, and is surrounded by a fence made of human bones and stands upon chicken legs.
		Baba Yaga may destroy us or enlighten us to break down the boundaries of our personality, to kill our ignorance, by forcing us to examine ourselves in the dark mirror of the soul, and grant us the deep wisdom that only an acquaintance with the dark shadow of the self may bring.
	www.babayagas.org /about.shtml (369 words)

	Baba Yaga's Hut: Initiatory Entrance to the Underworld
		Therefore, some also see Baba Yaga as a Triple Goddess figure, a theme that is further developed by her shape-shifting ability to transform herself into an archetypal maiden, mother, or crone.
		"Baba Yaga's hut is the place where transmutation occurs; it is the dark heart of the Underworld, the dwelling place of the dead ancestors who are symbolized by the grinning skulls around her house" (Johnson 94).
		In ancient times when Baba Yaga was seen as a divine bird or horse mistress to hunters and warriors, she was believed to be a "guide and initiator of the male into the mysteries of the female world" (Hubbs 43).
	www.mythicarts.com /writing/Baba_Yaga.htm (1964 words)

	Baba Yaga
		Are you weaving, my dear?" "I'm weaving, Auntie," the girl replied, "I'm weaving, my dear." When Baba Yaga moved away from the win-dow, the little girl gave some ham to the cat and asked her whether there was any escape.
		Baba Yaga will chase you; put your ear to the ground and, when you hear her coming, throw down the towel—and a wide, wide river will appear.
		But the cat answered her, "I've served you for years, yet you've never even given me a bone, but she gave me some ham." Baba Yaga then turned on the dogs, the gates, the birch-tree and the serving-maid, and set to thrashing and scolding them all.
	www.geocities.com /igorbyz_rf5/baba.html (839 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Baba Yaga - Witch, Crone and Archetype
		Baba Yaga sleeps on her enormous oven, which is sometimes used to cook children.
		Baba Yaga thinks that anyone who lets the fire go out must be stupid, but lets Vasilisa into the house as she is respectful and brave.
		Baba Yaga the Crone is a fearsome, wild creature.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A823402 (2356 words)

	Baba Yaga ideas
		Other common elements of a Baba Yaga story are that she is usually shown living in the forest, riding in a mortar, rowing herself along with a pestle and brushing her traces away with a broom.
		Baba Yaga stopped at the edge of the forest and screamed, for there was nothing left for her to do.
		Baba Yaga ran into the yard and saw the dogs contentedly eating the bread, and began to scold them, but they replied in much the same way as the cat had.
	www.thebells.net /Halloween/BabaYaga (3977 words)

	Baba Yaga
		Baba Yaga eventually cajoles Valentina into taking this doll home for "protection," with the unsuspecting and entranced young woman unaware of the insidious power that lies behind this simple act.
		She's an able enough actress to make a good show of it, and her work is in no way glaringly bad but there's something awkward about her Baba Yaga that might have been eliminated had Farina managed to get the actress that he wished to play the lead.
		While not without its flaws, Baba Yaga is an entertaining and strange hour and a half bit of period piece Eurohorror that is especially of interest today given its relationship to the just passed Italian sequential artist that penned the work from which it was adapted.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /hyde/babayaga.asp (1265 words)

	RealMagick Article: Baba Yaga: A Demon or A Goddess? by Freya
		Usually, Baba Yaga is a frightening Witch who lives in the middle of a very deep forest, in a place which is often difficult to find unless a magic clew (a ball of yarn or thread) or a magic feather shows the way.
		As for Baba Yaga herself, she flies through the air in a mortar using the pestle as either a device to drive her mortar or as a wheel to control her motion; she sweeps away her tracks with a broom.
		Baba Yaga also gives her prey a choice when she asks them to sit on her spatula to be placed inside the oven: if one is strong or witty, he or she escapes the fires of the oven, for weak or dim-witted ones, the road to death becomes clear.
	realmagick.com /articles/00/2000.html (2056 words)

	The Baba Yaga - History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Baba Yaga is a recurring figure in Russian folklore.
		She is often called Baba Yaga "the Bony-legged." Her hut stands on chicken legs, and must be commanded to turn around so that one may enter.
		Baba Yaga flew through the air in a mortar, rowing with a pestle, and her house could run after its victims.
	maxpages.com /russianmyths/Baba_Yaga - !http://maxpages.com/russianmyths/Baba_Yaga (551 words)

	Baba Yaga
		One night, while saving a stray dog about to be hit by a car, she makes the acquaintance of Baba Yaga, who happens to be the passenger in the limousine that she ran in front of.
		Baba Yaga is slightly older than Valaentina, and it’s apparent from the get go that there’s something going on with her that isn’t quite normal.
		When Valentina pays a visit to Baba Yaga's massive old mansion, she uncovers some strange antique items; most notably dominatrix doll that Baba Yaga bequeaths to Valentina, telling her that the doll’s name is Annette.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/A-D/baba_yaga.html (795 words)

	SuperKids Software Review of Baba Yaga and the Magic Geese.
		Baba Yaga and the Magic Geese is a beautifully animated adaptation of a classic Russian folktale.
		Baba Yaga scored well on this measure, based on the clarity of the storyline, the quality of the graphics and sound, and the number and variety of clickable opportunities.
		Baba Yaga was best liked by younger reviewers (3-6), and among reviewers with less extensive exposure to interactive books.
	www.superkids.com /aweb/pages/reviews/e_read1/babayaga/merge.shtml (507 words)

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