Baba Yaga
This is the sixth and last of my Villains of Fairy Tales topic. I often save the best until last although in this subject's series, I saved the most creepiest last!
Ever since I was a kid reading these stories, Baba Yaga was the most scariest. Who is it? She appears n Russian folk tales, and is an old crone witch that eats children. Baba Yaga has scared kids for centuries all over the East but her tales reached the West in the late 20th Century and she is nightmarish. She lives in a small house that stands on chicken legs. There are fiery lanterns made from skulls. This location is found in a swamp by the forest.
Although she appears to some as a benign forest dweller who cares for wild animals, and helping those that are lost, it's also known that she has a dark side. She's also a type of predatory being. In some stories she's maternal but then deceitful. There is a level of malice about her.
She travels on a broomstick, and sometimes she uses a flying mortar and pestle to get around. She appears in many stories and Slavic folktales going back centuries. Inside her dwelling, she can be found stretched out from one end to the other. She may have her long nose attached to the ceiling because of her acute ability to sense. Her sharp teeth are made of iron. There could also be more than one Baba Yaga. Most gruesome of all, Baba Yaga eats humans.
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