The Slavic crone, known for living in a house built on chicken legs and feasting on children, is a complex, and arguably feminist, figure – as a new book shows, says David Barnett. In fairy tales, ...

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 ...

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 ...

BABA YAGA LAID AN EGG By Dubravka Ugresic Canongate, $23 327 pages ’’Baba Yaga Laid an Egg” is a witty, provocative novel about old women, their idiosyncrasies, foibles and secret powers. It’s a mix ...

This most ancient of Russian evils can go from looking like an attractive femme fatale to a full-blown ghastly creature. Let’s take a look at how Baba Yaga has been imagined by artists from around the ...

Early in “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” the heroes encounter the movie’s primary antagonist: a woman in a gray suit who has the supernatural-seeming ability to pass through solid matter. When Scott Lang, a.k ...