Has she now?" smiled Baba Yaga, flashing her iron teeth. For she knew how much her sister hated Natasha, her stepdaughter. Yet something else was worse than all of this. Each night, the stepmother sat with Natasha’s father and told him that everything that went wrong in the house was his daughter’s fault. Sadly, the old man believed his new wife. Listen to me,” she hissed. "Today you will go to visit my sister, your dear little auntie, who lives in the forest. You will ask her for a needle and thread. We need it to mend this shirt."

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Afanasyev, Alexander (1916). Magnus, Leonard A. (ed.). Russian Folk-Tales. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Baba Yaga sends her home with a skull containing the fire she was sent to fetch, and once it is brought into the house, it burns the evil stepmother and stepsisters to ashes. Afterwards, Vasilissa and her doll leave the house, she becomes a seamstress and, with the doll’s help, impresses the king so deeply that he falls in love with her, and they are married, living happily ever after. But this time, Natasha was not afraid. She told her father everything that had happened. When the old man learned that his wife had sent his own daughter to be eaten by the witch Baba Yaga, he was so angry that he drove the stepmother out of the hut, never to return. Afanasyev, Alexander (1973) [1945]. Russian Fairy Tales. Translated by Guterman, Norbert. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-73090-5.Baba Yaga rushed about the yard, cursing and hitting, all the while screaming at the top of her voice. Then the little boat came to the land. Peter looked all about, but saw no one. He wondered where his mother had gone, and stepped out of his boat to look for her. Seeing the gate doors wide open, she shrieked, "Gates! Why didn't your doors squeak when she opened you?"

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You must go along the road into the forest till you come to a fallen tree, then turn left" said the stepmother. "Follow your nose. It will take to your auntie. Now off with you, you lazy girl!" Baba Yaga fits this definition neatly in that she embodies both subhuman and superhuman qualities in rejecting the consciousness of social norms and being able to act freely – unconsciously – outside of them. She is at once bestial in her hunt for prey and divine in her supernatural abilities of flight, shape-shifting, and magical spells. Vasilissa the Beautiful The girl walked along the road to the forest, then to the fallen tree, then she turned left. Her nose started to throb harder, so she knew she was going the right way. The Baba Yaga sat down, ate everything there was on the table, bones and all. Then she lay down and went to sleep. She snored terribly. That I will not,” answered the cat. “As long as I have been with you, you have given me nothing but hard words and bones to gnaw, but she stroked my fur, and gave me a cake to eat. Scratch your own eyes open, for you shall have no help from me.” And then the little cat ran away into the forest.There she hid herself close to the shore and called in her little new voice, “Peter, Peter, bring your boat to the shore, for I have brought another little cake for you to eat.” As to the old Baba Yaga, she may be shouting and stamping and rubbing the pitch from her eyes yet, for all I know. RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE BY KATHARINE PYLE Now it so happened that a Baba Yaga, a terrible witch, was hiding in the bushes near-by. She heard all that passed between the woman and the child. So after the woman had gone home, the Baba Yaga waited for a while, and then she went down to the edge of the river and hid herself there, and called out: