Some characters in old stories are scary in a way that makes you want to hear more about them. Baba Yaga is definitely one of ...

In American movies, the Baba Yaga wears a tailored tactical suit, carries an HK P30L as his primary, drives a 1969 Mustang Mach1, and answers to the name of John Wick. In Slavic folklore, the original ...

Theatre Intime’s new show “Yaga,” first written and produced by artistic director Richard Rose of the Tarragon Theater in 2019 and now directed by Kat McLauglin ’25, is a humorous and riveting ...

It’s no secret that plenty of old fairy tales have a disturbing, creepy quality to them, but perhaps none more so than the old crone Baba Yaga, best known for living in a chicken-footed hut. With ...

For Euronews Culture's countdown to Halloween, we’re taking a look at some of the lesser-known mythical creatures of Europe. Today is the turn of Slavic myth, the Baba Yaga. In Eastern European ...

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 chicken legs ...