Baba Yaga

English

Baba Yaga (by Viktor Vasnetsov)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga, probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).

Proper noun

Baba Yaga

  1. (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


Portuguese

Proper noun

Baba Yaga f

  1. (Slavic mythology) Baba Yaga (hag who flies through the air in a mortar)

Spanish

Proper noun

Baba Yaga f

  1. (Slavic mythology) Baba Yaga (hag who flies through the air in a mortar)
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