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Baba Yaga: The Greatest 'Wicked Witch' of All?
BBC ^
| 20th November 2022
| David Barnett
Posted on 11/21/2022 11:44:32 AM PST by nickcarraway
The Slavic crone, known for living in a house built on chicken legs and feasting on children, is a complex, and arguably feminist, figure – as a new book shows, says David Barnett. I In fairy tales, women of a certain age usually take one of two roles: the wicked witch or the evil stepmother, and sometimes both.
A key figure from Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga certainly fulfils the requirements of the wicked witch – she lives in a house that walks through the forest on chicken legs, and sometimes flies around in a giant mortar and pestle. She usually appears as a hag or crone, and she is known in most witch-like fashion to feast upon children.
However, she is also a far more complex character than that synopsis suggests. Cunning, clever, helpful as much as a hindrance, she could indeed be the most feminist character in folklore.
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TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: babayaga; easterneurope; folklore; russia; slavic; witch
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To: nickcarraway
Keanu Reeves could not be reached for comment.
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11/21/2022 11:48:34 AM PST
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READINABLUESTATE
(It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.)
To: nickcarraway
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11/21/2022 11:49:19 AM PST
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PGR88
To: nickcarraway
I thought John Wick was Baba Yaga.
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11/21/2022 11:49:30 AM PST
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NurdlyPeon
(It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
To: nickcarraway
All I know about Baba Yaga I learned from John Wick.
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11/21/2022 11:50:13 AM PST
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airborne
(Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! R)
To: NurdlyPeon
John Wick is who you send to kill Baba Yaga.
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11/21/2022 11:50:57 AM PST
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airborne
(Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! R)
To: READINABLUESTATE
Keanu Reeves could not be reached for comment. Three men tried to get him to comment.
In a bar.
YOU KNOW what happened ...
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11/21/2022 11:51:19 AM PST
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NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: NurdlyPeon
He wasn’t exactly the Bogeyman ...
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11/21/2022 11:52:15 AM PST
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NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: nickcarraway
Haha Haha is the ultimate feminist trope.
She eats children!
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11/21/2022 11:55:50 AM PST
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RedMonqey
To: nickcarraway
Baba Yaga is where I learned what a mortar and pestle are. We aren’t Slavic, but my mom got a book from the library about her and read it to us when I was probably in kindergarten.
I still can’t figure out why she’d try to fly in such a contraption. Also, I found her not the least bit scary.
To: RedMonqey
Baba Yaga! Not haha haha.
Gads I hate spellcheck.
To: READINABLUESTATE
John Wick...The Baba Yaga sent to kill the boogeyman
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11/21/2022 11:58:29 AM PST
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Hambone 1934
(Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
To: Flash Bazbeaux
The mortar and pestle are tools of mixing medicines and poisons. Quite ingenious actually.
To: NorthMountain
To: nickcarraway
Baba Yaga was behind the plate for the Yankees.
To: READINABLUESTATE
I thought it was some kind of condiment with olives...
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11/21/2022 12:05:23 PM PST
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meowmeow
(In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
To: nickcarraway
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BigEdLB
(Let’s go Brandon!)
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11/21/2022 12:08:07 PM PST
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PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
To: nickcarraway
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11/21/2022 12:09:57 PM PST
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Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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