Baba Yaga is a famous witch of Slavic folklore. Is represented as an old woman who flies into a giant mortar using the pestle as a rudder, and a birch broom to clear tracks and trails in the woods, a sign that a person is obviously very, very bored.
lives in a hut supported by two chicken legs (only one in the Polish tradition) and surrounded by a fence of human bones and skulls. The lock of the door is a mouth full of teeth, although in some versions, the house has no doors or windows, probably because its design is derived from typical buildings of the ancient Siberian and Uralic populations used to keep food away from predators and those slave for his funeral rites of cremation (which created many misunderstandings when Siberians were invited to dinner by Slavs and vice versa). These constructions were based on tree trunks, reminiscent of crow's feet.
usually has a habit of kidnapping (and presumably eat) the children and is generally rather unpleasant, though in some stories proves somewhat cooperative with the hero of the moment, as is the case in the history of the Vassilissa Bella , flow a witch's house by her stepmother who hopes to get rid of, from a very popular hobby among women of the time:
"And you, how many daughters killed lately?"
"Hey lady, just two in the last ten years, although last month I've abandoned in a forest."
"I understand you know, this dearth of daughters leave us with nothing to do all day."
"What an ugly world ..."
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