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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 ...
Russian scholarship classifies the tale, in the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS), as tale type SUS 465A, "Красавица-жена («Пойди туда, не знаю куда»)" ("Beautiful Wife ('Go Somewhere, I Don't Know Where')"): a royal archer (or a poor man) marries a supernatural maiden; the emperor, wishing to have her to himself, sends the ...
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*.
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 ...
Vasilisa the Beautiful at the Hut of Baba Yaga, illustration by Ivan Bilibin. Russian Fairy Tales (Russian: Народные русские сказки, variously translated; English titles include also Russian Folk Tales) is a collection of nearly 600 fairy and folktales, collected and published by Alexander Afanasyev between 1855 and 1863.
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