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Baba Yaga
Baba-Yaga (Russian Баба-Яга, Баба-Яга, pr. Baba-Yaga) is a character in Slavic mythology, especially that of Russia, and the imaginary figure of a character from a story.
In Russian tales impersonates an old witch who moves flying on a mortar and wields a pestle as a rudder and taking out the trails in the woods with a mop of silver birch.
He lives in a hut that stands on two legs raised chicken, served by his invisible servants. The keyhole of the front door consists of a mouth filled with sharp teeth; the outer walls are made of human bones. In a variant of the legend, the house does not reveal the location of the door until it is pronounced a magic phrase.
Stories and legends
Baba Yaga is sometimes referred to as bad and sometimes as a source of advice; there are stories in which she is seen helping people in their research and stories in which kidnaps children to eat them. Seek his help is usually a dangerous and preparation and purity of spirit are absolutely necessaryThe legend of the three knights
Baba Yaga also has at Her command a number of otherworldly servants. These include a Red Knight who is the day bright sun, a White Knight who represents the dawn, and a Black Knight who signifies the night.
Black, red, and white are the three colors most commonly associated with the process of personal transformation, black for the dissolution of the personality, white for its purification after darkness, and red for solar power and the vital life force that follows.Yaga is further served by six pairs of dwarves, who represent elemental spirits.
Baba Yaga will speak of them to anyone who asks, but she can kill the guest who wants to know his invisible servants.The Beautiful Vasilisa
In the popular story of the Beautiful Vasilisa , the girl was sent to seek the advice of Baba Yaga and is enslaved by the witch. The invisible servants (a cat, a dog, a gate and a tree), however, help Vasilisa to escape because she was kind to them. At the end of the Baba Yaga fairy tale has turned into a pelican.
In another version of the story, recorded by Alexander Afanasiev (1862), Vasilisa has to do three impossible missions ,that she complete by of a magic doll given to her by her mother.
In modern literature, Baba Yaga is widely used by the authors of modern Russian fairy tales and the nineties of the twentieth century in the Russian fantasy.
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Edited by Sylvhia - 28/6/2014, 15:40
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