Baba Yaga
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Baba Yaga (by Viktor Vasnetsov)
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga, probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).
Proper noun
Baba Yaga
- (Slavic mythology) In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish, and Bulgarian tales, a hag who lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder.
Translations
hag who flies through the air in a mortar
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