Who is Baba Yaga?
Baba Yaga is a terrible witch prominently featured in far Eastern European and Russian folklore. She lives deep in the forest in a hut that both stands and walks on chicken legs. Though she uses a broom to sweep away her tracks, Baba Yaga travels in a mortar and pestle - making her a fairly unique witch indeed!
Baba Yaga Variants
Alice Nizzy Nazzy, the Witch of Santa Fe by Call Number: JUV J735aLISBN: 0399227881Publication Date: 1995-04-19When Manuela's sheep are stolen, she has to go to Alice Nizzy Nazzy's talking road-runner-footed adobe house and try to get the witch to give the flock back, in a Southwestern version of the Baba Yaga story
Anna Seven Swans by Call Number: JUV 398.2S58aISBN: 0688027555Publication Date: 1984-01-01When her little brother is taken away by the seven swans belonging to the terrible witch, Baba Yaga, Anna searches for him in the great dark forest
Baba Yaga by Call Number: JUV 398.2K49bISBN: 082340854XPublication Date: 1991-03-01When a terrible witch vows to eat her for supper, a little girl escapes with the help of a towel and comb given to her by the witch's cat
Baba Yaga by Call Number: JUV L6855baISBN: 9781605372907Publication Date: 2016-09-13Baba Yaga, the witch from Slavic mythology, comes to life in this fairy tale. An Leysen draws you into an imaginative story about a wicked witch and a sweet, brave little girl
Baba Yaga's Assistant by Call Number: JUV M1297baISBN: 9780763669614Publication Date: 2015-08-04Most children think twice before braving a haunted wood filled with terrifying beasties to match wits with a witch, but not Masha. Her beloved grandma taught her many things: that stories are useful, that magic is fickle, that nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean. The fearsome witch of folklore needs an assistant, and Masha needs an adventure. She may be clever enough to enter Baba Yaga's house-on-chicken-legs, but within its walls, deceit is the rule. To earn her place, Masha must pass a series of tests, outfox a territorial bear, and make dinner for her host. No easy task, with children on the menu!
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave by Call Number: JUV 398.2M46baISBN: 0688085008Publication Date: 1994-05-19A retelling of the old Russian fairy tale in which beautiful Vasilisa uses the help of her doll to escape from the clutches of the witch Baba Yaga, who in turn sets in motion the events which lead to the once ill-treated girl's marrying the tzar
Babushka Baba Yaga by Call Number: JUV 398.2P76bISBN: 0399225315Publication Date: 1993-09-15The villagers are afraid of her, so the legendary Baba Yaga disguises herself as an old woman in order to know the joys of being a grandmother
The Flying Witch by Call Number: JUV 398.2Y54fLISBN: 0060285362Publication Date: 2003-08-01Relates how a turnip farmer's daughter outwits the fearsome witch Baba Yaga
The Tzar's Bird by Call Number: JUV T662tISBN: 0027894010Publication Date: 1990-11-01A tzar's fear of going to the edge of the world grows when Baba Yaga threatens him, but in time he learns that fear of the unknown is a senseless fear
Vasilisa the Beautiful by Call Number: JUV 398.20947 B4332VISBN: 9789888240500Publication Date: 2015-12-15A retelling of the old Russian fairy tale in which beautiful Vasilisa uses the help of her doll to escape from the clutches of the witch Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale by Call Number: GR75.B22 J65 2004ISBN: 9780820467696Publication Date: 2004-04-27This book investigates the image and ambiguity of Baba Yaga in detail and considers the meanings she has for East Slavic culture.
From Vassilisa the Beautiful by Ivan Bilibin, 1899