Baba Yaga

Meaning

Proper Noun

In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a hag who lives in a hut standing chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder. She behaves ambivalently and may be result either amiable or hostile.

Origin

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga, probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́.

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