Baba Yaga - The Wicked Witch of Slavic Folklore
Baba Yaga is one of the most famous witches in Slavic myth and Russian folklore. Her origin is part of her mystery. The first written reference to Baba Yaga was in 1755 in Mikhail W. Lomonosov’s Russian Grammar, where she is listed amongst ancient figures from Slavic tradition. The indication is that the legend of Baba Yaga began in pre-Christian, pagan times where people were very superstitious and believed that their fates were not of their own making but at the mercy of other-worldly deities.
Her name has a variety of meanings. Baba has been translated as Old Woman, Hag, or Grandmother, depending on which Slavic language is being referenced. Yaga has no definitive scholarly consensus. The word means Horror and Shudder in Serbian and Croatian, Anger in Slovenian, Witch in Old Czech, Wicked Wood Nymph in Modern Czech, Witch and Fury
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The clear intention is to instill fear and guarded respect in anyone who encounters her. She lives deep in the forest in a hut that rests on giant chicken legs that can move around the forest and make it harder for anyone to find Baba Yaga. The windows serve as eyes to watch over her domain and the fence post around the hut is built out of human bones and is topped with human skulls. Various versions of the Baba Yaga folklore state that she is either a single witch or a trio of witches who all have the same name. Most tales say that she rides around the forest in a giant mortar which she also uses to hold the ground up bones of the people she eats. When flying, she uses a huge pestle like a rudder and holds it in her right hand while she holds a broom in her left hand to wipe away her trail. A few tales have her using the traditional witches’ broom for transportation. She possesses the power to detach her hands so that they can carry out her
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Witchcraft is the most illogical and despised practice involving the supernatural power. “It implies the ability to injure others”. A witch usually acquires his power through an inherent physical factor, or through the power of another witch. Witch possess a special organ called mangu, located somewhere behind the sternum or attached to the liver. ”[11]
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Then, someone would tie a rope around a tree branch, leaving a hole for the witch’s head. The witch would then, in the cart, put her head through the hole. When the cart was moved, the witch fell and was killed. Some believe Sarah Good might have actually been a witch. When a reverend accused Sarah Good of being in the gallows, she told him she was no more.
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This is the familiar image of the fictional witch - the evil, ugly crone, the "wicked witch" from Wizard of Oz, and it's the image that's engraved into our culture as an association to the word "witch." This caricature is what we see in drawings when one wants to reference Halloween, and the witch costumes we always see around that time are those of black capes an...
She was afraid but the creature spoke so kindly to her that after a while they became friends. One day the sister took her husband’s razor and went out to look for the hairy man. When she found him she made him lie down and shaved him. Now he looked like a man. His name was Ebenga, meaning the beginner. Ebenga bewitched the woman, so that when her child was born it brought witchcraft into the world. The child grew up under the spell of Ebenga. He practiced witchcraft and brought evil and sorrow to men [PM
Witchcraft is said to be the most widespread cultural phenomenon in existence today and throughout history. Even those who shun the ideas of witchcraft cannot discount the similarities in stories from all corners of the globe. Witchcraft and its ideas have spread across racial, religious, and language barriers from Asia to Africa to America. Primitive people from different areas in the world have shockingly similar accounts of witchcraft occurrences. In most cases the strange parallels cannot be explained and one is only left to assume that the tales hold some truth. Anthropologists say that many common elements about witchcraft are shared by different cultures in the world. Among these common elements are the physical characteristics and the activities of supposed witches. I will go on to highlight some of the witch characteristic parallels found in printed accounts from different parts of the world and their comparisons to some famous fairytales.
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Witchcraft has been a part of many cultures for hundreds of years all around the world. Witchcraft is defined as being the manipulation of substances and or words that are powerful using magic to cause either harm or good depending on the person intent. Witchcraft is usually an unconscious activity, dues to this the “witch” is not often aware that he or she is bewitching someone (McGarry 2016: 15). There are six main characteristics to witchcraft that make it easier to identify it within different cultures. The characteristics are that there are a few exceptions; witches are mostly seen as evil beings, secondly, witches have particular traits, for example reversals of behaviour, witchcraft is typically genetic condition, as it is usually used