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How a witch is using her grandmother’s Slavic magic to aid Ukraine’s war effort
religionnews.com ^ | May 20, 2022 | Emily McFarlan Miller

Posted on 05/22/2022 8:14:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Baba Yaga is a witch figure who flies around Slavic folk stories...and lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs deep in the woods.

Madame Pamita spoke to Religion News Service about Baba Yaga, traditional Slavic magic and how the author is using her magic to support the people of Ukraine amid Russia’s continuing invasion of the country.

"In my experience of connecting deeply to her, I see her as a grandmother figure, but a tough grandma, or like a grandma who knows you can do more than you think you can, so she pushes you.

In Slavic practices, the fire was alive, and the fire was where the ancestors were. We in the 21st century don’t have the depth of knowledge about what it means to get put in the fire. It means to go to your ancestors. So she’s sending you to the world of the spirits if she’s trying to put you in the wood stove.

Madame Pamita spoke to Religion News Service about...how the author is using her magic to support the people of Ukraine amid Russia’s continuing invasion of the country.

"In my experience of connecting deeply to her, I see her as a grandmother figure, but a tough grandma, or like a grandma who knows you can do more than you think you can, so she pushes you.

"If we go back far enough, we see her as the mistress of the forest, the grandmother of the forest, the mother of the forest, as protector spirit of the forest. She’s that person who is connected to the world of the dead and the world of the living. She moves between those worlds, which is why sometimes she’s going to kill the person or she’s going to put them in the fire."

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KEYWORDS: agitprop; babayaga; chechens; chechnya; concerntroll; concerntrolls; putinlovertrollsonfr; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; satanism; satanisttrollsonfr; spiritcooking; ukraine; urkaine; witchcraft; zottherussiantrolls
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1 posted on 05/22/2022 8:14:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 05/22/2022 8:16:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
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To: BenLurkin

I thought this was about Hillary


3 posted on 05/22/2022 8:23:39 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: BenLurkin

That’s what Kiev has been missing !!


4 posted on 05/22/2022 8:34:48 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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5 posted on 05/22/2022 8:37:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: faithhopecharity
No, they have it. Ms. "Spirit Cooking" herself has already been there doing her magical thing.


6 posted on 05/22/2022 8:44:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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...lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs...

I’m sure she’s got a great personality, too.


7 posted on 05/22/2022 8:50:07 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: BenLurkin

globohomos backing ukraine approve of this satanism.


8 posted on 05/22/2022 9:17:05 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: BenLurkin

Oh yeah, this is a face you can trust (Baba Yaga).

9 posted on 05/22/2022 9:24:41 AM PDT by Jonah Hex
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To: BenLurkin

She would probably do a brisk businesses in selling voodoo dolls of Putin.


10 posted on 05/22/2022 9:34:19 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Jonah Hex

Latrine?


11 posted on 05/22/2022 9:54:17 AM PDT by 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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To: BenLurkin

This proves that Soros... I mean Ukraine... is winnnnnnnning!!!


12 posted on 05/22/2022 9:54:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Affirmative action is systemic/institutional racism/sexism targeting straight, white males.)
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To: Chode

Baba Yaga from “Father Frost”, a Russo-Finnish production from the early 60’s. MST3K/Rifftrax did a great take on it. :-)


13 posted on 05/22/2022 10:00:01 AM PDT by Jonah Hex
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To: BenLurkin

So unless she flying around on her broomstick and knocking Russian Migs out of the sky, no big deal.


14 posted on 05/22/2022 10:05:06 AM PDT by antidemoncrat ( adn)
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To: BenLurkin

ha!


15 posted on 05/22/2022 10:29:32 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: BenLurkin

From a podcast I listened to lately, apparently Ukraine has a widespread and well-entrenched subculture of traditional witchcraft and the occult. Just like the neo-pagans we have here that tried to place a hex on President Trump, the Ukrainian witches are directing similar efforts against Putin and his invading soldiers.


16 posted on 05/22/2022 10:57:19 AM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domi/i><p>! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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Not defending their witchery nonsense but it does have the “respectability” of being around a long long time. Quite unlike our Western “I-Did-This-for-a-Renaissance-Festival-Event-&-I-Felt-So-Cool!-It-Got-Me-Laid-&-They-Have-the-Best-Weed-And-It-Makes-Mom-&-Dad-Mad!-So-It-Has-to-be-a-Religion! Right?” so-called (and self-called!) “pagans\witches” we have here!


17 posted on 05/22/2022 11:12:57 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Jonah Hex

thx


18 posted on 05/22/2022 12:00:57 PM PDT by 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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To: antidemoncrat

Baba Haha is more high tech. She flies around in a mortar and pestle.


19 posted on 05/22/2022 12:22:02 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
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Baba Yaga.

I hate spellcheck.


20 posted on 05/22/2022 12:23:31 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
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