Getty Images As demonstrated in the Russian fairy tale Vasilisa the Beautiful (depicted above in a 19th-Century illustration), Baba Yaga can be both heroine and villain (Credit: Getty Images ...

Baba Yaga, the mysterious witch of Russian mythology, is one of the most iconic and terrifying figures in Slavic folklore.

One of the most beloved (and feared) figures in Russian and East Slavic folklore, One of the most beloved (and feared) figures in Russian and East Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is more than just a witch.

The description of a woman with strange powers sounds more like folklore than science to Kurt (David Dastmalchian), who compares Ghost to a legendary figure called Baba Yaga. The moment makes for ...

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 ...

Also known as Baba Yaga Boney Legs, this figure appears in stories as an iron-toothed witch with a skeletal frame (despite her massive appetite). However, she does not have the stereotypical ...

In her debut book Thistlefoot, author GennaRose Nethercott reimagines the centuries-old character Baba Yaga as a Jewish woman living in a shtetl in 1919 Russia, in a time of civil war and pogroms.

The description of a woman with strange powers sounds more like folklore than science to Kurt (David Dastmalchian), who compares Ghost to a legendary figure called Baba Yaga. The moment makes for ...