Yaga

The way Baba Yaga is portrayed is interesting as well, but I find that in Russian folklore she’s more of an ambiguous character – helpful wise woman sometimes, evil crone other times – and I think I prefer her like that.

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card 2007

The way Baba Yaga is portrayed is interesting as well, but I find that in Russian folklore she’s more of an ambiguous character – helpful wise woman sometimes, evil crone other times – and I think I prefer her like that.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

It was a restaurant called Yaga on 23rd Street and the Strand.

CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2005 2005

So Brat's precious "Yaga" was Bear's wife now, and no one even remembered that she had once been Olga, a hopeful young princess in a lovely kingdom on the south shore of the Baltic Sea.

Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

Toda looks like Baba Yaga, the witch in the Russian fairy-tale book our father sent from far away.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

I finally found a stable and satisfying career teaching high school, and Baba Yaga went into the drawer.

Why I Wrote A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka 2010

Or perhaps, a sympathetic story about the Baba Yaga sexually targeting a handsome young male or female - or both.

MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009

But as I watched the precarious fates of my Polish friends and Poland lurch forward, a novel grew out of my list, and my own peripatetic indecision started to resemble that of a fictional Polish girl named Baba Yaga.

Why I Wrote A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka 2010

Toda looks like Baba Yaga, the witch in the Russian fairy-tale book our father sent from far away.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

See also: Baba Yaga, Zombie Zorro, pulp-style image of Jason Voorhees, and a great Twitter image.

Vintage illustration of a Facehugger (and more) 2010