Baba+Yaga

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 * __﻿__ //__ Baba Yaga: __ [[image:vasilissathebeautiful.jpg width="313" height="400" align="right" caption="Vasilissa the Cinderella-like character in the story.She is well known for her beauty and kindness."]]//**
 * Baba Yaga is a witch-like character in folklore.
 * In most folktales she kidnaps and is thought to eat small children.
 * She lives in a hut with dancing chicken legs and flies around on a broom.
 * In some folktales characters go to her for guidance and wisdom.

__//**In Russian Tales:**//__ __**//Vasilissa the Beautiful://**__ The Cinderella-like character in the story is a girl named Vasilissa. One day Vasilissa's mother becomes ill and her father (in the tale known as the "merchant") over time remarries to an evil widow who has two daughters. Before Vasilissa's mother died she gave her a doll that possesses magical powers. One day Vasilissa's father went on a long journey. The step-mother had enough of waiting around for him and sold their house and moved into a hut in a forest. Vasilissa walks around in the woods and she meets Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga gives her 3 tasks each day,Vasilissa becomes enslaved. For her first day's tasks Vasilisa was to clean the house, cook, and pick out black grains and wild peas from a quarter measure of wheat. Baba Yaga's servants a dog, a cat, and a tree help Vasilissa escape in return for her kindness towrads them. Vasilissa escaped successfully and Baba Yaga is turned into a crow. In the end Vasilissa's doll turns her stepmother and stepsisters to ashes.
 * In Russian folktales Baba Yaga is portrayed as hag, who flies around on a broom, and is thought to have magical powers.
 * She lives in a magical hut that moves either by the help of magical chicken legs or a magical spell Baba Yaga put on the hut.
 * One of her known magical powers is to age one year when someone asks her a question.
 * A blend of blue roses that is made into tea weakens her power and reserves it.
 * One folktale that has an apperance of Baba Yaga is "Vasilissa the Beautiful" (Василиса Прекраснаяby in Russian) Alexander Afanasyev.

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__**//Polish Baba Yaga Tale://**__
 * The Polish version of "Vasilissa the Beautiful" is almost as the same Russian Tale.
 * For instance Baba Yaga's hut has only one chicken leg (instead of 4 legs in the Russian tale).
 * In the Polish version there are also witches living in gingerbread houses in the woods.
 * Also, when Baba Yaga flies on her broom wear a red and black striped folk costume of the Swietokrzyskie Mountains.
 * Vasilissa also denies the servants' help at first.

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