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Hi Community , Halloween is coming.

Today I bring you a little story of:

Baba Yava the most famous witch of Russia

is a bony old wrinkled travels in a mortar in the deep forests, is said to have a leg of bone that represents the world of the dead, has teeth of steel , lives in a house that stands on 2 legs of chicken.

Creepy...

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Baba Yaga is a character of Russian folklore and is in charge of protecting the border between the world of mortals and the world of spirits.

Legends say that he wears clothes made of animal skins and bones, that he decorates with skulls of his victims, his nose allows him to smell the fear of people who get lost in the forest, with his sharp teeth he tears the flesh of his prey.

To hide its presence, it is accompanied by rain and fog. She wanders through the woods looking for victims, riding on a mortar, and rowing in the air.

She knows everything, sees everything, and reveals everything to those who dare to ask.

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It lives in a hut that stands on two huge chicken legs surrounded by a bone fence with an invisible entrance door.

To enter the house, Baba Yagá says the spell :

"cottage, cottage,turn your back to the forest and face me"

His servants are a talking black cat and spectral hands. He has three riders representing the dawn ( white), noon ( red ), and midnight ( black ).

Baba Yaga appears in several stories the most famous story is "Vasilisa the Beautiful", a Russian fairy tale compiled by Alexander Afanasyev , where vasilisa is sent by her stepmother to collect fire from the baba yaga's hut, vasilisa, along with the help of a magic doll, the invisible servants and the three horsemen who mark the passage of time, completes the tasks and receives the magic fire. everything ends well when her skills attract the attention of the tsar and he marries her.

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Baba yaga is a character, disconcerting because in his story he assumes two roles: that of cannibal, but also who helps the heroine of the stories.

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