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Baba Yaga depicted in Tales of the Russian People (published by V. A. Gatsuk in Moscow in 1894) Baba Yaga being used as an example for the Cyrillic letter Б, in Alexandre Benois' ABC-Book Baba Yaga is an enigmatic or ambiguous character from Slavic folklore (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who has two opposite roles.
The next day, Baba Yaga asks the girl to shear her sheep in the woods. Her husband appears again and tells her that the "sheep" are wolves that will tear her to pieces, so he teaches her a magic command. The girl climbs up a tree, chants the magical command and the wolves shear themselves. Seeing the girl's newfound success, Baba Yaga then ...
In Russian and Slovak folklore, notsnitsa are known to torment children at night, and a stone with a hole in the center is said to be a protection from nocnitsa. Mothers in some regions will place a knife in their children's cradles or draw a circle around the cradles with a knife for protection.
Babay or Babai (Russian: Бабай) is a night spirit in Slavic folklore. According to beliefs, he abducts children who do not sleep at night or behave badly. [ 1 ] He is also called Babayka ( Russian : Бабайка ), Babayko ( Ukrainian : Бабайко ) or Bobo (Babok, Bebok) ( Polish ), although the term may also be applied to his ...
The princess Vasilisa the Beautiful or Vasilisa the Wise is a stock character in Russian fairy tales, including "The Frog Tsarevna" and "Vasilisa the Beautiful". The character often rises in status from a peasant girl to the wife of a prince; or she is a princess who marries the hero after helping him to accomplish difficult tasks.
The Magic Swan Geese (Russian: Гуси-лебеди, romanized: Gusi-lebedi) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki, [1] numbered 113. It is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 480A*.
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Russian tale collections attest to the presence of Baba Yaga, the witch of Slavic folklore, as the antagonist in many of the stories. [ 26 ] Russian scholar T. V. Zueva suggests that this format must have developed during the period of the Kievan Rus , a period where an intense fluvial trade network developed, since this "East Slavic format ...