Baba Yaga
name/ˌbɑːbə ˈjɑːɡə/
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga (literally “hag of terror”), probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).
- borrowed from Ба́ба-Яга́
- derived from *baba ęga✻
Definitions
In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a character who lives in a hut…
In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a character who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder.
- [L]ooking like the hut, minus the fat chicken legs, of Baba Yaga, the old witch with iron teeth and an appetite for a human supper.
- But elbow injuries are the Baba Yaga for pitchers, an ever-present danger.
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