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Baba Yaga
BabaYaga
Appeared in Series 1
Number 18
Point Value 15

Baba Yaga is monster #18 from Series 1.

Series 1[]

Baba Yaga is a fifteen-point monster that comes in original red and olive green, as well as all four later neon colors. She is depicted with her pot and two small skeleton heads with her.

Official biography[]

Species: Witch
Born: In Russia during the 12th Century
Size: 6 Feet Tall
Habitat: Lives in remote areas of Russian forests

Even Russia has its famous monsters. In this case it's Baba Yaga, an evil old hag who flies through the sky in a large black kettle, propelled by a fiery broomstick. She is known to give children rides and bring them home for dinner - unfortunately, the children are the main course! Baba Yaga lives deep in the forest in a "tastefully" decorated house. It sits atop hen's legs and is surrounded by a fence made of dead men's bones. On the fence are human skulls with candles burning in them. So next time you are outside after dark, look into the sky. Perhaps you will see the sparks from Baba Yaga's broom as she heads out to pick up her next dinner guest!

In other media[]

Video Game (1992)[]

VG Baba 01

Baba Yaga appears as an enemy monster in the Monster in My Pocket video game. She is found in the Construction Site (Stage 4, Area 1), where she flies around and attempts to strike the player.

The Quest[]

Baba Yaga was planned to appear in the CGI series Monster in My Pocket: The Quest as a neutral enemy for both the heroic Warlock and the evil Morlock. As the show was cancelled before airing, there is very little information about it. It is known, however, that Baba Yaga was a powerful witch who, as in folklore, lived in a house on chicken legs. The proposed episode "Baba Yaga's Revenge" has Baba Yaga outsmarting both Warlock and Morlock and kidnapping the protagonist, Jason.

Origin[]

In Slavic mythology, Baba Yaga is in old powerful witch who lives deep in Russian forest. She lives in a house that stands on tall chicken legs surrounded by fence made of human bones and she flies in a mortar and pestle.

In most stories, she's often an antagonist who fries and eats children that come to her doorstep. In other stories, however, she'll help protagonists if they'll gather ingredients for her spells in dangerous places. This is one such story:

A girl named Vasilisa was sent by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters to fetch fire from Baba Yaga. When she finally met the witch, she told her why she came to her, and Baba Yaga told her that she must first do all her chores while she was away. With the help of a magic doll, Vasilisa set to work cleaning, scrubbing and preparing food. When Baba Yaga returned home, she was impressed to see all of Vasilisa's work done and asked how she did it. Not wanting to reveal the magic doll, Vasilisa merely replied she was helped "by her mother's blessing." Baba Yaga, wanting nothing to do with someone who has been blessed, gave Vasilisa a skull full of hot coals to return home with. When Vasilisa returned home, she gave the skull with coals to her stepmother and stepsisters. As soon as the cruel women touched the coals, they were burned into ashes. Vasilisa then buried the skull in the ground under instruction so that no one would be harmed by it.

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