Baba Yaga

And there is a bit of a difference between maybe the starting out blacksmith character saying this and the dragon herald with her mantle and powers fully realized saying that saying I'm going to come for you.

until this is settled, like, Oh, no, that's, that's the Baba Yaga.

That's, that's bad news.

Next is declare that you forswear this right, black it out in your playbook, and replace it with a new one.

vampires.

Maybe, but that's not the same as Baba Yaga.

Baba Yaga is presented as a gaunt, bony-legged, crone, legendarily amorally ambiguous figure in the folklore because it presents itself as a terrifying ogress, but also sometimes as a wise mentor.

So think of it like that scary professor that you don't know whether or not to trust because they're super genius, but they also look very

scary.

Yes.

So that's the other one.

That's kind of an interesting one because the Russians, I think, are the ones who in that series call him Baba Yaga, the guy who hunts the boogeyman or the boogeyman himself.

And the little hut turned round, with its front to him, and its back to the sea.

The Tsarevich entered in, and saw the bony-legged Baba Yaga lying on the stove, on nine bricks, and grinding her teeth.

Hello, good youth, why dost thou visit me? asked the Baba Yaga.

Feed thou old hag, thou callest me a good youth, but thou shouldst first feed, and give me drink, and prepare me a bath, then only shouldst thou ask me questions.

The Baba Yaga fed him, and gave him to drink, and made ready a bath for him, and the Tsarevich told her he was seeking his wife Vasilisa.

I know, said the Baba Yaga, she is now with Kashchi.

"'Tis hard to get thither, and it is not easy to settle accounts with Kashchi.

His death depends upon the point of a needle.

And so they made a very European-feeling Castlevania game.

There's a lot of references to Baba Yaga and more European folklore sprinkled throughout.

So it's a very different feel.

I know some people, Mook... really do not appreciate the lords of shadow as a castlevania game i personally love it i think it's a great game um it's got some fun puzzles throughout um i love whipping things and monsters and just being a belmont um yeah

a charismatic university professor who has a taste for younger men and a reputation for getting too close to her students.

And this kind of opens up a web of local secrets that may be woven into this ancient witchcraft of the Baba Yaga.

And what starts as a police procedural really evolves into a more supernatural horror and a look at how small coastal towns and small rural communities can carry secrets and foster violence.

And the show kind of uses the mythology of this witch figure to explore how women and violence against women is kind of proliferated in these communities.

Yeah.

So in that clip, we heard Carrie-Anne Moss's character talking about that Baba Yaga character.

It's a figure from Slavic folklore.

Can you explain a bit more sort of what the Baba Yaga is and how it does show up in the show?

Okay, American Horror Story, you can stream it on Disney Plus and Hulu.

Next up, it is an age-old tale, very loosely based on the ancient tale of Baba Yaga, the terrifying witch AMC Plus has just released, Yaga.

There's versions of her all over the world.

Sometimes she's an ugly old witch who lives in a disappearing hut on chicken feet.

Sometimes she's a wise woman, an enchantress, a healer.

But she always has a name.

That name, of course, is Baba Yaga.

What form does she take in this series, Yaga?

But it was, thank you for being a French.

The scenario was called Baba Yaga.

The

scenario

was called Baba Yaga, not Baba Yaga, but Baba Yaga.

And I had seen somebody do this online, but I'm like, how can I do this with my 3D printer? So I had an Airstream 3D print.

I printed out an Airstream.

Then I took out some chicken legs that I found from another 3D print and I sized them up.

going to be the boogie man.

Baba Yaga.

Literally, they call him the Grim Reaper.

Yo, that dude legit is going to die in like three episodes.