Too Nice Child is forced by the others to visit Baba Yaga, and the girl’s only defense is the wise doll, carried in her pocket, that her late mother gave her. Any reader of fairy tales will know ...

matryoshka dolls, and Baba Yaga. While most girls my age were growing up with nicely sanitised Disney version princesses, I preferred the stories by Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans ...

Recalling the late matriarchy among Siberian peoples, a common picture of a bone-carved doll in rags in a small cabin on top of a tree stump fits a common description of Baba Yaga, who barely fits ...

Not exactly evil, not quite benevolent there, Baba Yaga. Then there's one of the most beloved of Russian folktales. "Vasilissa the Beautiful." On her death bed, a merchant's wife gives a doll to ...

And then there was that visit to Baba Yaga's house, where Valentina discovered bizarre relics, including a dominatrix doll, and a bottomless pit in the living room. Valentina comes to realize that ...

Baba Yaga: An Evening of Toy Theatre ... Troy Martin’s “Backward and Forward” and Todd Zaruba’s “A Doll’s Life” are more simply executed, and their stage pictures tend to be static.

Baba Yaga is a witch figure who flies around Slavic ... There is a chapter (in the book) about spirit dolls — “motanka.” That showed me this connection between what my grandmother was ...

For centuries, the crone Baba Yaga has been a figure in Slavic folklore — the kind of character who might lend you a magical candle or kill you and use your skull to decorate her house on ...