I wanted the anthology to feature the voices of women around the world who were unafraid to tell their stories, to tap into their own wildness and wickedness, and in that way I feel like Baba Yaga came to me as a muse for the anthology," she explains.

Animated segments telling the story of Baba Yaga were used in the 2014 documentary The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, directed by American filmmaker Jessica Oreck. And the events are a bit madcap, which I loved -- Balkan witches and spells, Cold War espionage, homage to Fitzgerald, Kafka, some Dr. Jane Yolen’s Finding Baba Yaga is due out in October 2018, and if you’ve read any of her other work, you know it’s going to be good. This book has a compelling story, authentic folklore and folk magic, and the wisdom from an ancient forest witch. Predivno je kada te oduševi roman za koji niko nije čuo, od koga ništa nisi očekivao, koji si pritom dobio na poklon od brata vešca i koji ljudi, sudeći po recenzijama, vole da mrze.While most girls my age were growing up with nicely sanitised Disney version princesses, I preferred the stories by Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen – and, of course, in the books of Slavic fairytale and folklore that talked of Baba Yaga. It will be nice to read about practices my ancestors did and bring back some of that into my practice. This Baba Yaga makes the same comments and asks the same question as the first, and Ivan asks the same question. People who are interested in witches and don’t have too many preconceived ideas about them will enjoy this tale. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

She lives in a house which walks about on chicken's legs and she flies in a mortar and pestle through the sky. Izzy likens Baba Yaga to trickster characters from many mythologies, such as Norse god of mischief Loki or Coyote from Native American folklore.Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki used Baba Yaga as the basis for the bathhouse proprietor in his award-winning 2001 movie Spirited Away. Babayaga was quite the ride -- a tale spun from the dark dredges of superstition mixed in an east european cauldron of mysticism with a dash of unqreuited end-of-the-world kind of romanticism and bloody intrigue.