BABA YAGA LAID AN EGG By Dubravka Ugresic Canongate, $23 327 pages ’’Baba Yaga Laid an Egg” is a witty, provocative novel about old women, their idiosyncrasies, foibles and secret powers. It’s a mix ...
Anyone who grew up on fairy tales (and that should be everyone) will likely remember Baba Yaga, the Russian witch who lived in a house with chicken legs. A new, lavishly illustrated book, "Baba Yaga: ...
In her debut book Thistlefoot, author GennaRose Nethercott reimagines the centuries-old character Baba Yaga as a Jewish woman living in a shtetl in 1919 Russia, in a time of civil war and pogroms. We ...
Witches are ubiquitous these days: they grace our screens, stalk our runways, and even offer up their prophetic wisdom in advice columns. Channeling the forest-dwelling crone of Slavic folklore, ...
As the trailer began winding down, two quick shots showed Baba Yaga and her iconic chicken leg house. First appearing in the Hellboy storyline Wake the Devil (1996), the witch has been a long-time foe ...