Baba Yaga is an Eastern European witch. She flies around in a mortar using a pestle as an oar and lives in a hut that walks around on chicken legs. Also, like any good witch, she enjoys eating the occasional child. I've seen some of those European forests, and I have no doubt that Baba Yaga is out there somewhere.
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
63. The Baba Yaga mythos
Baba Yaga is an Eastern European witch. She flies around in a mortar using a pestle as an oar and lives in a hut that walks around on chicken legs. Also, like any good witch, she enjoys eating the occasional child. I've seen some of those European forests, and I have no doubt that Baba Yaga is out there somewhere.
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If you're going to mention Baba Yaga, you also have to mention Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, including the Hut of Baba Yaga.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it's arranged for marching band: Seconds 49 to 1:42, if I could figure out how to link to a YouTube clip.