Where did Baba Yaga come from? Baba Yaga in Slavic mythology - from goddess to old woman Origin of the word Baba Yaga
BABA YAGA!
Baba Yaga is a mythological character among the Slavs. She can cast magic and also fly in a mortar. 
Baba, a common ancient Slavic reference to a woman. It comes from the child’s first words, which are not yet proficient, such as: mom, dad, nanny, dad, baba, hence grandma. Yaga, ancient Slavic female name. According to legend, Baba Yaga was a childless young woman who wore red boots with a pattern embroidered with gold threads. Hence Baba Yaga has a golden leg. Due to her childlessness, she set up a kind of orphanage, collected orphans and looked after them. Subsequently, when the parents’ child played pranks, they told him that Baba Yaga would come and they would give him to her. So they began to scare children with Baba Yaga, from generation to generation. Modern children have the idea that Baba Yaga is an old, scary old woman who feeds on small children and walks on a bone leg. Herodotus mentions the Slavic Baba Yaga.
Origin of the image
In ancient times, the dead were buried in domovinas - houses located above the ground on very high stumps with roots peeking out from under the ground, similar to chicken legs. The houses were placed in such a way that the opening in them faced the opposite direction from the settlement, towards the forest. People believed that the dead flew on their coffins. The dead were buried with their feet towards the exit, and if you looked into the house, you could only see their feet - this is where the expression “Baba Yaga bone leg” came from. People treated their dead ancestors with respect and fear, never disturbed them over trifles, fearing to bring trouble upon themselves, but in difficult situations they still came to ask for help. So, Baba Yaga is a deceased ancestor, a dead person, and children were often frightened with her. According to other sources, Baba Yaga among some Slavic tribes (the Rus in particular) was a priestess who led the ritual of cremation of the dead.
She slaughtered sacrificial cattle and concubines, who were then thrown into the fire.
The dual (ambivalent) nature of Baba Yaga in folklore is connected, firstly, with the image of the mistress of the forest, who must be appeased, and secondly, with the image of an evil creature who puts children on a shovel in order to fry them.
Baba Yaga is not an original Slavic character, but an alien one, introduced into Russian culture by soldiers from Siberia. The first written source about her is the notes of J. Fletcher (1588) “On the Russian State”, in the chapter “On the Permians, Samoyeds and Lapps” (N. Veselovsky. “Imaginary stone women”, Vestnik AI, St. Petersburg, issue 195) : “As for the story about the Golden Baba or Yaga Baba, about whom I happened to read in some descriptions of this country, that she is an idol in the form of an old woman who gives prophetic answers to the priest’s questions about the success of the enterprise or the future, then I was convinced that that this is a simple fable.” According to this position, the name of Baba Yaga is associated with the name of a certain object. In “Essays on the Birch Region” by N. Abramov (St. Petersburg, 1857) there is a detailed description of the “yaga,” which is a garment “like a robe with a fold-down, quarter-length collar. It is sewn from dark non-spitting fibers, with the wool facing out. ... The same yagas are collected from the necks of loons, with the feathers facing out... A yagushka is the same yaga, but with a narrow collar, worn by women on the road" (V. I. Dahl’s dictionary gives a similar interpretation of the Tobolsk origin) 
From the point of view of supporters of the Slavic (classical) origin of Baba Yaga, an important aspect of this image is seen as her belonging to two worlds at once - the world of the dead and the world of the living. In this regard, the well-known specialist in the field of mythology A. Barkova interestingly interprets the origin of the name of the chicken legs on which the hut of the famous mythical character stands: “Her hut “on chicken legs” is depicted as standing either in the thicket of the forest (the center of another world), or at the edge , but then the entrance to it is from the side of the forest, that is, from the world of death. 
The name “chicken legs” most likely comes from “chicken legs”, that is, smoke-fuelled pillars, on which the Slavs erected a “death hut”, a small log house with the ashes of the deceased inside (such a funeral rite existed among the ancient Slavs back in the 6th-9th centuries) .
Baba Yaga, inside such a hut, seemed to be like a living dead - she lay motionless and did not see the person who had come from the world of the living (the living do not see the dead, the dead do not see the living). She recognized his arrival by the smell - “it smells of the Russian spirit” (the smell of the living is unpleasant to the dead).”
“A person who encounters Baba Yaga’s hut on the border of the world of life and death,” the author continues, as a rule, goes to another world to free the captive princess. To do this, he must join the world of the dead. Usually he asks Yaga to feed him, and she gives him food from the dead. There is another option - to be eaten by Yaga and thus end up in the world of the dead. Having passed the tests in Baba Yaga’s hut, a person finds himself belonging to both worlds at the same time, endowed with many magical qualities, subjugates various inhabitants of the world of the dead, defeats the terrible monsters inhabiting it, wins back a magical beauty from them and becomes king.” (Encyclopedia “Slavic mythology and epic”, article “Beliefs of the ancient Slavs”).
Thanks to the texts of fairy tales, it is possible to reconstruct ritual, 
the sacred meaning of the actions of the hero who ends up with Baba Yaga. In particular, the largest specialist in the field of theory and history of folklore V. Ya. Propp, who studied the image of Baba Yaga on the basis of a mass of ethnographic and mythological material, draws attention to a detail that is very important in his opinion. After recognizing the hero by smell (Yaga is blind) and clarifying his needs, she always heats the bathhouse and evaporates the hero, thus performing a ritual ablution. Then he feeds the newcomer, which is also a ritual, “mortuary” treat, inadmissible to the living, so that they do not accidentally enter the world of the dead. And, “by demanding food, the hero thereby shows that he is not afraid of this food, that he has the right to it, that he is “real.” That is, the alien, through the test of food, proves to Yaga the sincerity of his motives and shows that he is a real hero, as opposed to a false hero, an impostor antagonist" (Propp V. Ya. Historical roots of a fairy tale, St. Petersburg, 1996.) This food “opens the mouth of the dead,” says Propp, who is convinced that a fairy tale is always preceded by a myth. And, although the hero does not seem to have died, he will be forced to temporarily “die to the living” in order to get to the “thirtieth kingdom” (another world). There, in the “thirtieth kingdom” (the underworld), where the hero is heading, many dangers always await him, which he has to anticipate and overcome.
Also, it makes sense to consider the following hypothesis of the origin of Baba Yaga: In the Tale of Bygone Years there is reference to the tribes of Yagov and Kasog. The first lived in the area of present-day Tuapse and were quite bloodthirsty and ferocious warriors (I’ll clarify Byzantine sources...). There is an assumption that they were cannibals, and, for safety reasons, they built their homes on the water (hence the “chicken” legs - piles). 
Another prototype of Baba Yaga could be the witches and healers who lived far from settlements deep in the forest. There they collected various roots and herbs, dried them and made various tinctures, and, if necessary, helped the villagers. But the attitude towards them was ambiguous: many considered them comrades of evil spirits, since living in the forest they could not help but communicate with evil spirits. Since these were mostly unsociable women, there was no clear idea about them.
POEMS about BABA YAGA!
The tale of Baba Yaga, who really wanted to get married...
In a dense thicket, among berries and mosses,
Where - strictly according to the rules of children's poems -
No human has ever set foot,
There lived a lonely Baba Yaga. 
She wasn't that dense:
She had an iron and slept on silk.
And the computer was her only friend.
And she whiled away her leisure time with him. 
And since she wasn’t bad in appearance -
Yaga dreamed of finding her groom.
And so that the smell of compote and cabbage soup
Some kind of Koschey wandered in to see her.
And she studied dating sites,
But everything was not satisfied,
Since clients of such agencies
They wanted busty and young brides.
And then one day the eternal motto burst out:
"Hut, hut, turn to me!"
From the shadow of the spruce tree - thick and gray -
The young prince came to the hut.
Baba Yaga is confused: “I don’t understand,
Where should I take you? Adapt to what?
Why did you give in to me, you demonic agility?
Boil you? Or should I adopt?"
Grandma is upset, she curses everything
Nature, fate and the bad Internet:
“I was looking for a gray-haired, older husband!
And this one is a child! Milk on your lips!"
The Tsarevich feels sorry for upsetting Yaga:
“Let’s try, grandma, to start again!
Do you need a husband? My dad is a widower.
I’ll introduce you and that’s the end of the matter!”
Yaga was stunned: “To dad? To the king?
Oh, fathers... I’ll burn with shame!
There are neither shoes nor decent dresses!
I haven’t done my hair in a thousand years!” 
But female talent is not forgotten, not killed -
And now Yaga is standing at the parade.
And this beauty the young prince
He led him in a solemn march to the palace. 
The widower dad even lost his footing:
"Madam, wow, I'm in love, I'm dead!"
This is the end of the fairy tale, guys.
It's not just models who walk down the aisle...
*******
Baba Yaga once flew on a mortar, 
She fell out of the mortar - and all that was short-lived,
Her bone leg broke,
Baba Yaga thought: “Aha!
And he jumps along the shore towards the owl,
What lives in a hundred-year-old oak tree in a meadow:
- Hey, owl, can you fix my leg?
And the owl said to her: “I can’t!” Yes!
Follow my path from the oak tree,
Find one blacksmith in the village.
To fix anything - I have nothing
And no, but here he has - wow!
Here he jumps to the forge, there immediately Yage
The blacksmith riveted the knuckle to the poker,
And Baba Yaga has to jump
Now on an iron leg. Hey!
Even if it rings so loudly that it will wake up the deaf,
But in general, Yaga is doing well,
And only the burdocks tremble by the road
And from there you can hear “hee hee!”
****
Time to cast the spell!
* * *
Viburnum will bloom
Nightingale night,
I spit in captivity of spleen
Into the closed eyes,
White flowers
I weave it into my hair,
The hassle of troubles
I urge you in my heart, 
Sweet wine
I'll warm you up at the fire,
I'll come up with a little idea
Yes, I'll do the job.
I'll call you first
Creatures from smoke
Which is completely random
We passed by
Noisy crowd
Entities from a fairy tale
They'll run after me
And let's have a dance! 
And that’s all you need -
Darkness of the new moon!
I'll be glad
Girl-witch!
* * *
But here are some FANTASTIC wonders in the Urals:
BABA-YOSHKA'S HUT:
KOSCHEY'S hut: 
Baba Yaga on the screen
Georgy Millyar played the role of Baba Yaga more often than others, including: 
* Morozko
* Precious gift
* Koschei the Immortal
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Fairy tales
* Swan geese
* Princess Frog
* Vasilisa the Beautiful
* Marya Morevna
* Ivan Tsarevich and Bely Polyanin
* Go there - I don’t know where, bring that - I don’t know what
* The Little Humpbacked Horse
* Marya the mistress
In the films “There, on Unknown Paths” and “After the Rain on Thursday,” the role of the kind Baba Yaga was played by Tatyana Peltzer.
In the film “Fire, Water and... Copper Pipes” the role of Baba Yaga’s daughter was played by Vera Altaiskaya.
In the film “New Year's Adventures of Masha and Vitya,” the role of Baba Yaga was played by Valentina Kosobutskaya.
In the film “At the Thirteenth Hour of the Night,” the role of Baba Yaga was played by Zinovy Gerdt.
In the film “The Island of the Rusty General,” the robot Babu Yaga was played by Alexander Lenkov.
In the film “The Purple Ball” the role of Baba Yaga was played by Svetlana Kharitonova. 
Ziterov Yu.A. 1 Nagikh P.O. 2
2 Municipal educational institution secondary school No. 3
Ziterova N.P. 1 Mukhina T.I. 1
1 Municipal educational institution secondary school No. 3
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Introduction
Relevance
Fairy tales are a wonderful creation of art. Our memory is inseparable from them. In almost all fairy tales, one of the heroes is Baba Yaga. What is it about this dashing creature that frightens, but at the same time attracts, attracts to fairy tales? We have always been interested in the question: who is Baba, where did she come from in Russian folk tales and what does her name mean?
Baba Yaga is one of the most famous and mysterious creatures on earth. Most people consider her to be an ordinary evil witch.
Having visited the village of Kukoboi, Pervomaisky district, we learned that some people call Baba Yaga the ancient Slavic shore, goddess, mistress of the forest and animals. Did Baba Yaga really live?
Project basis: Educational standards.
Target: Find out who Baba Yaga is - a fictional image, or the name of an evil old woman who existed in reality.
Tasks: Study the origin of the name and attributes. Find out whether Baba Yaga is always a negative hero. To study the mark that Baba Yaga left in literature and in the life of modern man. To figure out
Are the surnames and names of settlements in the Tutaevsky district of the Yaroslavl region found with names from the word “Yaga”.
Object of study: Russian folk tales.
Subject of study: the image of Baba Yaga, her magical attributes (hut on chicken legs, stupa).
Defined research methods:
search for information;
questionnaire; analysis; observation; classification; generalization.
Practical significance of the study: This material can be used in literary reading lessons, during class hours and quizzes.
A survey of 628 students was conducted.
Questionnaire questions 1-9 grades:
Who is Baba Yaga?
What does Baba Yaga look like?
Good or evil?
What does she do with those who come to her?
How old is she?
Survey results
1.Who is Baba Yaga?
98% of students consider Baba Yaga a witch, a character from Russian folk tales. 2% of respondents found it difficult to answer
2.What does Baba Yaga look like?
Describing the appearance of Baba Yaga, schoolchildren point out that she is an ugly old woman with long shaggy unkempt hair and a hooked nose. These features were indicated by 98% of respondents, 2% found it difficult to answer.
3.Good or evil?
Of the respondents, 80% of students consider Baba Yaga to be evil, 14% - both evil and good, 6% - good.
4.What does she do with those who come to her?
94% of students answer that Baba Yaga feeds, gives water, asks where he is going, soars in the bathhouse, wants to eat, roasts in the oven; 6% believe that it helps those who come to it.
5.How old is she?
The ages indicated vary: from 36 to 1000 years. Age from 36 to 55 years was given by 3% of respondents; from 55 to 100 years old 9% of respondents, from 100 to 300 -28% of respondents, more than 300 -60% of respondents.
conclusions : Most students (98%) are familiar with the image of Baba Yaga from Russian folk tales, have an idea of what she looks like and what she does to those who come to her. Not everyone considers her evil (6% consider her good, 14% both evil and good). The majority of students surveyed (60%) believe that Baba Yaga is more than 300 years old.
Baba Yaga's age is presumably from 30 to 40 years old, because... in the 16th century, the average life expectancy was 30 years, and at 40 years old a person looked like a decrepit old man. Today Baba Yaga would be about 460 years old.
First mention Baba Yaga dates back to 1588, that is, if you count until 2018, then they have known about her for 430 years.
Results of the study of names of settlements
Results of a study of the surnames of residents of the city of Tutaev (7832)
In preschool institutions of the city and region, the name Yagilev was found from the word “Yaga”. (3339 names verified)
In the schools of the city and region, the surname Yagilev was discovered from the word “Yaga”.
(3485 names verified)
Results of a study of surnames in telephone directories.
In the city and region, the surname Yagilev was found from the word “Yaga”. (1008 names checked)
Research was carried out on the names of settlements and the names of residents of the city of Tutaev
In the Yaroslavl region there are no settlements with names from the word “Yaga”.
In the city and region, the surname Yagilev was found from the word “Yaga”. (7832 names checked)
conclusions : Words similar in sound to the word “Yaga” are found in our time, for example, in the surname Yagilev (moss is reindeer moss, it was once called “yag”. There is a version that Baba Yaga received such a name, since she lived in an area where reindeer moss grows.)
Main part
Who is Baba Yaga? The meaning of the name Baba Yaga
According to one version, Baba Yaga - is a guide to the other world - the world of ancestors. She lives on the border of the worlds of the living and the dead, somewhere in the “far away kingdom.”
Name "Baba Yaga" from V. Dahl’s dictionary: the first word “baba” comes from the word “babaika”, which is used to scare children; the second word “yaga” means a forest woman with an insolent, grumpy character; in some Slavic languages, the word “yagaya” means a person with a sore leg: Yaga is a bone leg.
According to Max Vasmer, Yaga has correspondences in many Indo-European languages with the meanings “illness, annoyance, waste away, anger, irritate, mourn,” etc., from which the original meaning of the name Baba Yaga is quite clear.
According to another version, prototype of Baba Yaga - witches, healers who treated people. Often these were unsociable women who lived far from settlements, in the forest.
According to some information, She got her name from the ancient word “yagat”. V. I. Dal in his “Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language” interprets this word in this way: “to shout, make noise, rage, scold, quarrel, swear.” There you can also find: “Yaga is a kind of witch, an evil spirit, under the guise of an ugly old woman. Russian ethnographer In the middle of the 19th century, N. Abramov published “Essays on the Berezovaya Region,” where he suggested that the word “yaga” comes from the name of outer clothing (“yaga” or “yagushka”), which was always worn with the wool facing out. In the mythology of the ancient Slavs, such clothing was a mandatory attribute of “evil spirits.”
According to another hypothesis , in the language of the Komi peoples, “yag” is a pine forest, and the Khanty word “yachem” is consonant with it - pine forest. And Baba Yaga in this interpretation is a forest woman. It can be assumed that Yaga lived in a pine forest. Fairy tales also testify to this. She lives in a dense forest or swamp.
There is also assumption, that she received such a name because she lived in an area where moss grows - reindeer moss, which was once called “yag”.
There are other versions, according to in which Baba Yaga came into Russian fairy tales from India (“Baba Yaga” - “yoga mentor”), this is confirmed by the famous researcher of Russian folklore A. Podyapolsky.
There are versions according to by which Baba Yaga came into Russian fairy tales from Central Africa (stories of Russian sailors about the African tribe of cannibals - Yagga, led by a female queen). The sailors were horrified by the order that had been established there for centuries.
There is a version, that Baba Yaga (Yoga) is a Goddess who transfers (accompanies) the dead from this World to the next World.
Supporters they see another version in Baba Yaga, the Great Mother is a great powerful goddess, the foremother of all living things ("Baba" is a mother, the main woman in ancient Slavic culture). Yogini “Baba Yoga the golden leg”, that is, in golden boots, delivered orphaned children to her foothill Skete, which was located in the thicket of the forest, at the foot of the Irian Mountains (Altai) and the children were then dedicated to the Gods. She did all this in order to save these last representatives of the most ancient Slavic and Aryan Clans from imminent death. The children were dressed in clean white clothes, decorated with flowers, given sleep herbs to drink, and placed in a niche in the cave. There were two niches there. The children were placed in the back alcove. Then the first niche was covered with fallen brushwood and the back niche was pushed inside the cave. But no one saw that when she moved, a stone wall was lowered, which fenced off the brushwood from the children. Next, the priest or Yogini Mother herself set fire to the brushwood, and for all the laypeople and those present, the brushwood burned. It was believed that the children were burned, roasted in the oven, and then some people speculated and said that the children were eaten. In fact, these children were taken to rooms or cells in the rock and raised from them to be priests and priestesses. When the time came, these orphans, boys and girls, were united into a family union so that they could continue their Family. But after 10 or 20 years, no one could recognize that little ragged orphan child in the young priest or priestess. And the expression “dedicate to the Gods” meant serving the Gods of one’s Family, one’s people.
Well, the final one version, Baba Yaga arrived on our Earth from space and is an alien. Her stupa is a kind of spaceship, a device that constitutes one of the stages of a huge spaceship necessary for mobile movement in space over short distances.
2.2 Hut “on chicken legs”“
And the famous hut on chicken legs is like a passage into this world; that’s why you can’t enter it until it turns its back to the forest . A “chicken leg” was once called a crossroads or a fork in the road, and such a place was considered “unclean” and dangerous by the Slavs. But, most likely, “chickens” are “smoking” modified over time, that is, smoked. The ancient Slavs had the following custom of burying the dead: on smoke-fuelled pillars they placed a “death hut”, a small log house with the ashes of the deceased inside, a domovina (a funeral structure in the form of a human dwelling). There is an assumption that the hut on chicken legs indicates another custom of the ancients - burying the dead in domovinas - special houses placed on high stumps. Such stumps have roots that extend outward and really look somewhat like chicken legs. The dead were buried with their feet towards the exit, and if you looked into the house, you could only see their feet - this is probably where the expression “Baba Yaga bone leg” came from. .
2.3 Rituals
Thanks to the texts of fairy tales, it is possible to reconstruct the ritual, sacred meaning of the actions of the hero who ends up with Baba Yaga. In particular, V. Ya. Propp, who studied the image of Baba Yaga on the basis of a mass of ethnographic and mythological material, draws attention to a very important detail, in his opinion: after recognizing the hero by smell (Yaga is blind) and clarifying his needs, Yaga must he heats the bathhouse and steams the hero, thus performing a ritual ablution. Then he feeds the newcomer, which is also a ritual, “mortuary” treat, inadmissible to the living, so that they do not accidentally enter the world of the dead.
2.4 Attributes of Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga rides or flies through the air in iron, stone, fire, etc. mortar, drives with a pestle or stick, covers the trail with a broom (that’s why the broom in the pictures is always turned with the handle forward, with the broom back). Since the 12th century, they began to bury the dead in dugout oak logs - stupas (from here the expression “to give an oak” or “to give an oak ahead of time”, that is, to die, has come down to this day). In 1703, Peter I issued a decree prohibiting, under penalty of death, cutting down oak forests. .
2.5 Magical helpers
Baba Yaga’s magical assistants are geese-swans in the fairy tale of the same name “three pairs of hands” and three horsemen - white, red and black (day, dawn and night, respectively).
2.6 Characteristic phrases
Fu-fu, it smells like the Russian spirit.
2.7 “Motherland” and Baba Yaga’s birthday
In 2004, the village of Kukoboi, Pervomaisky district, Yaroslavl region, was declared the “homeland” of Baba Yaga, and the Baba Yaga Museum was created there.
2.8 What Baba Yaga looks like.
Baba Yaga is shaggy (and in those days the braids were only unbraided by dead women), weak-sighted, with a bone leg, a hooked nose (“the nose has grown into the ceiling”) - a real evil spirit, a living dead.
2.9 Overbaking a Child
There is an assumption that the prototype of Baba Yaga is a witch, a healer who treated people. Baba Yaga’s passion for frying children in the oven on a shovel is very reminiscent of the so-called ritual of “over-baking”, or “baking”, of infants suffering from rickets or atrophy, sometimes with a hernia: the child was wrapped in a “diaper” made of dough, placed on a wooden bread shovel and three times stuck into a hot oven. Then the child was unwrapped, and the dough was given to the dogs to eat. .
In the Vladimir province, all children were “baked” immediately after birth. In Russia, the ritual was known mainly in the Volga region, central and southern Russian provinces, as well as in Siberia. Older children were treated in a similar way if they fell ill: they were sat on a shovel and carefully brought to the burning stove. In this case, it was believed that diseases were burned and came out through the chimney along with the smoke, and the “rebaked” child became healthier. And it really often helped! This ritual was performed by the village healer. Only in fairy tales this ritual changed its sign from “plus” (treating the child) to “minus” (the child is fried to be eaten). It is believed that this happened already in those times when Christianity began to establish itself in Rus', and when everything pagan was actively eradicated. But Christianity was still unable to completely defeat Baba Yaga, the heiress of folk healers: not a single fairy tale has any evidence that she ever managed to fry anyone.
2.10 Types of Baba Yaga
According to the greatest specialist in the field of theory and history of folklore V. Ya. Propp, there are three types of Baba Yaga: “Yaga the Giver”, who accepts the hero, tests him and gives him a wonderful fire-breathing horse, rich gifts, wonderful objects, etc. .; the most common is the “Yaga the Kidnapper,” who carries away people and especially children, whom she then tries to roast and eat; The third type is the “Warrior Yaga”, who fights with heroes and defeats many of them.
There are also different forms (formats) of Baba Yaga:
"Yaga the Adviser." She herself does nothing for the hero, but indicates who to turn to for help.
“Yaga-mistress” of the forces of nature and the animal world (commands the wind, morning, evening, night; wolves, bears and other forest animals).
“Guardian Yaga” (patron), who, with the help of her magical assistants (owl, saucer, etc.), follows the hero’s adventures.
“Yaga the ancestor” (mother, grandmother for several of her daughters - granddaughters - yagishn). There is another “type” of Yaga “Yaga the seductress”.
2.11 Baba Yaga: positive or negative character?
10 fairy tales were analyzed. We came to the conclusion that Baba Yaga can be both a negative and a positive hero.
"Swan geese" -
Negative because he kidnaps children to eat.
"Princess Frog"-
Positive, as it gives advice on how to defeat the enemy (Koshchei)
"Baba Yaga"
Negative because she wanted to eat the girl.
"Baba Yaga and Zamoryshek" -
Negative, because she wanted to destroy all the brothers.
"Vasilisa the Beautiful" -
Positive, because she helped Vasilisa by giving her fire (a skull with glowing eyes).
"Marya Morevna" -
Negative, because she wanted to kill Ivan Tsarevich.
"Ivan Tsarevich and Bely Polyanin" -
Negative, because I fought with heroes.
"The Enchanted Princess" -
Positive, because she helped find the princess.
“Finist - clear falcon” -
Positive, since all three helped find Maryushka.
"The Tale of Rejuvenating Apples and Living Water"
Positive, because she gave advice on how to find water and apples.
The image of Baba Yaga is used in literature, music, painting, cinema, cartoons. There are games, poems, riddles about Baba Yaga (see the author’s book “Who is Baba Yaga?”, appendix).
Conclusions: The image of Baba Yaga is a collective image, and not the name of a specific person.
A fairy tale is a product of its era, it changes over time, popular thought makes its own amendments. Fairy tales describe several images of Baba Yaga, both negative and positive.
Conclusion
During the study, we found answers to many questions, read Russian folk tales, learned the meaning of unclear words, and conducted a survey among students on the research topic. You should always be attentive to reading any work of fiction, since only thoughtful reading will allow you to make some new discoveries. Baba Yaga is always different. She has many roles, many types. She can be not only evil, but also kind, economical, and hospitable. Fairy tales tell us that kindness, intelligence, politeness and courage help not only reach the goal, but also stay alive, remain human. Having gone through all stages of the research, we came to the conclusion that the origin of Baba Yaga is connected with the image of the mistress of animals and the world of the dead, the keeper of customs and traditions. Baba Yaga can act both as a pest and as a giver, a magical helper. Attributes such as a hut on chicken legs, a mortar, and a shovel with which she throws children into the oven are consistent with pagan pre-Christian beliefs, ideas and rituals. Baba Yaga is one of the most significant beregins of the family. Over time, Baba Yaga turned from a protector of the family into a malicious old woman. Baba Yaga is not just a fairy-tale character, she is an image that embodies the history, beliefs and rituals of the East Slavic tribes. Baba Yaga testifies to the enormous importance of women during the period of matriarchy and in subsequent periods of development of society. Baba Yaga remains an eternal mystery for humans.
This work has a great educational and practical orientation: a collection of materials has been prepared with information about Baba Yaga, a selection of poems, and drawings. Research will be of interest to both students and teachers and will be useful during lessons and extracurricular activities.
List of sources and literature used
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Explanatory dictionary of the living Great Russian language. V. Dal - M.: World of Books, 2002.
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Annex 1Applications 2
Vasin Stas, 8 years old
Shvets Artyom, 13 years old
Palazhov Egor, 8 years old
Ryabkov Alexander, 13 years old
Starostina Natalya, 13 years old
Evgenieva Ekaterina, 13 years old
Suvorova Lera, 9 years old
Ameryan M., 13 years old
Ishutin Andrey, 13 years old
Nazarov Vasily, 10 years old
Kalinicheva Daria, 13 years old
Pirogova Alina, 13 years old
Anufriev Anton, 8 years old
Rothaermel Julia, 13 years old
Larionova Anna, 13 years old
Polina Smirnova, 11 years old
Serafimenko Alina, 8 years old
Kopatova Alina, 13 years old
Suloeva Ekaterina, 9 years old
Sorokina Anna, 13 years old
Lapshin Sergey, 9 years old
Baba Yaga
Once upon a time there lived Baba Yaga
On the edge of the forest.
She lived all alone
In your simple hut.
And everyone thinks she's evil
They scare children at night...
How does she live alone?
Nobody really knows...
And I decided to find out
Is she really evil?
I'll tell everyone, I won't lie!
I’ll find out everything about her!
I got ready to hit the road
Its forests are dense.
Crossed wide fields
Wheat, gold.
Wandered into a dense dark forest.
I felt very scared. The pine trees were big - up to the skies...
And it's getting closer to night!
And strange sounds around -
Now there is a crash, then a howl, then knocking.
There is only fear in my eyes,
But I pulled myself together!
And he ran as fast as he could,
Where the eyes were looking.
I even forgot about Baba Yaga.
And suddenly, I look at the spruce tree
One hut is worth it
Appendix 3
A light flickers in it,
And there's an old lady sitting in it
And he hums a song.
Grandma has no strength at all,
All hunched over, gray-haired.
I approached her and asked
Who is she?
And she told me -
Her name is Yagoya!
Lives in the forest all alone -
Alone with my misfortune.
Grandma's leg hurts
She became completely lame.
No one will visit her -
They called it Bone Leg!
The grandchildren forgot about her
And they made up fairy tales
That evil, harmful lives,
Which is dangerous for children!
I felt sorry for my grandmother.
We drank tea with her!
And delicious pancakes
They were there for treats!
No scary Baba Yaga!
These are all just fairy tales!
The forgotten ones are grandchildren,
Without their love and affection!
Don't offend grandmas!
Visit them more often!
Love your grandmothers!
Don't forget about them!
Appendix 4
Sayings of children about Baba Yaga
3-4 grades
An evil, ugly hag, a witch, a black magician, an anti-hero, a woman who looks indecent, is responsible for kidnapping children from the village, loves no one, not even animals, Koshchei's grandmother, lives in a hut with legs; the hut has paws.
Evil, because there was nothing to eat, she forced people to climb into the oven, and then ate them; angry because she was not loved as a child. Kind - she put it in the oven to cure it. He keeps everyone warm by the stove, but sometimes he wants to eat someone.
A cunning and nimble woman in old age; old, crooked face, one tooth sticking out of her mouth, clumsy elongated nose, red eyes. A bony body, dark, wrinkled skin, a creaky back, arms like a squirrel, long yellow nails, legs crunching like branches. In a torn state.
5-6 grades.
An elderly woman with a house on chicken legs; a grandmother who casts spells; an insidious witch who harms everyone; loves himself alone, ruins everyone's life; Whoever catches your eye will be put in a cage. She took children and adults into slavery, forced them to work for her for food; lures people into his hut and does something to them, and then eats them. Flies on a bucket or broom.
A little bit kind; kind when they give her something, evil when she wants to. Angry because she doesn't have enough friends. She is evil because everyone is afraid of her, and if they are afraid of her, then she is evil. In fairy tales she is evil, but maybe in our lives it’s the other way around.
An old grandmother of unenviable appearance; evil green eyes, crazy look; large bright red lips; with a lot of warts; she has pimples, her skin is rough; hairstyle like some kind of nest; hair on end; gray hair, somewhat similar to a mop; hair tied in a bun; a face with scars and wrinkles; a scarf on the head, galoshes on the bottom; back as a question mark.
Features in many Russian fairy tales, drives people into captivity. If you offend, you will be evil; if you praise, you will be kind; and she wanted to eat children, but she also had a good character; angry at people who think badly of her. Thin build, loose skin, flies in a basket with a broom, lives in a hut that can walk.
An old woman with a hockey stick, looks like a homeless person, is constantly dissatisfied with something.
Aphorisms Appendix 5
(Vic Stepanov)
For some, Baba Yaga is a Muse. *Baba Yaga's stupa serves as the first step to mastery. *Baba Yaga's memoirs are kept in Kashcheev's chest. *Baba Yaga's hut wrote like a chicken - with its paw. *Tongue like a broom - Koschey winced, rubbing his naked, kissed by Baba Yaga, skull. *Two pair of boots - the bone prosthesis of Baba Yaga and Koschey, itself like a prosthesis. *Baba Yaga wrote as her left bone leg suggested. *Baba Yaga was a notorious graphomaniac, tapping step and tap dancing from morning to night bone leg.
Image in art Appendix 6
Russian writers and poets A. S. Pushkin, V. A. Zhukovsky (“The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf”), N. A. Nekrasov (“Baba Yaga, bone leg"), A. N. Tolstoy, V. I. Narbut and others.
Fairy tales
Baba Yaga;
Swan geese;
Princess Frog;
Vasilisa the Beautiful;
Marya Morevna;
Ivan Tsarevich and Bely Polyanin;
A hut on chicken legs;
Finist's feather is a clear falcon;
Go there - I don’t know where, bring that - I don’t know what (arranged by A. N. Afanasyev);
Go there - I don’t know where, bring that - I don’t know what (arranged by A. N. Tolstoy);
Vasily Shukshin: Until the third roosters;
Leonid Filatov: About Fedot the Sagittarius, a daring fellow;
A. S. Roslavlev: The Tale of the Three Tsar's Divas and Ivashka, the priest's son;
The Tale of Masha and Van;
Baba Yaga and Zamoryshek
The Enchanted Princess
The Tale of Rejuvenating Apples and Living Water
Music
In Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1878 collection of musical pieces for piano, "Children's Album," there is a piece called "Baba Yaga." The ninth play “The Hut on Chicken Legs (Baba Yaga)” of the famous suite by Modest Mussorgsky is dedicated to the image of Baba Yaga.
Painting
Picturesque interpretations of her image became widespread among artists of the Silver Age: Ivan Bilibin, Viktor Vasnetsov, Alexander Benois, Elena Polenova, Ivan Malyutin and others.
Movies
Georgy Millyar played the role of Baba Yaga more often than others, including in the films:
"Vasilisa the Beautiful" (1939)
“Morozko” (1964) “Fire, water and... copper pipes” (1967)
"Golden Horns" (1972)
“Fire, water and... copper pipes” (1967) - Vera Altai (daughter of Baba Yaga)
“Merry Magic” (1969) - Valentina Sperantova
“At the thirteenth hour of the night” (1969) - Zinovy Gerdt
“New Year’s Adventures of Masha and Vitya” (1975) - Valentina Kosobutskaya
“How Ivan the Fool Followed a Miracle” (1977) - Maria Barabanova
“There, on unknown paths...” (1982) and “After the Rain on Thursday” (1985) - Tatyana Peltzer (good Baba Yaga)
“Purple Ball” (1987) - Svetlana Kharitonova
“Island of the Rusty General” (1988) - Alexander Lenkov (Baba Yaga robot)
"Father Frost" (1996) - Donald O'Connor
“The Tale of Fedot the Archer” (2001) - Olga Volkova
“Miracles in Reshetov” (2004) - Yola Sanko
“The Forest Princess” (2004) - Galina Moracheva
“A New Old Tale” (2006) - Elena Sanaeva
“The Book of Masters” (2009) - Liya Akhedzhakova
“Adventures in the Thirtieth Kingdom” (2010) - Anna Yakunina
“Morozko” (2010) - Kristina Orbakaite
“Real Fairy Tale” (2011) - Lyudmila Polyakova
“The Good Fairy” (Spanish: Hada Madrina) (TV series 2015) - Macarena Rivero
Cartoons
“Ivashko and Baba Yaga” (1938, voiced by Osip Abdulov)
"Geese and Swans" (1949)
“The Frog Princess” (1954, voiced by Georgy Millyar)
“The End of the Black Swamp” (1960, voiced by Irina Masing)
“About the Evil Stepmother” (1966, voiced by Elena Ponsova)
“The Tale is Telling” (1970, voiced by Klara Rumyanova)
“The Frog Princess” (1971) (dir. Yu. Eliseev, voiced by Zinaida Naryshkina)
“Vasilisa the Beautiful” (1977, voiced by Anastasia Georgievskaya)
“Zhiharka” (1977, voiced by Vasily Livanov)
“Flying Ship” (1979, women’s group of the Moscow Chamber Choir)
"Baba Yaga is against it!" (1980, voiced by Olga Aroseva)
“Ivashka from the Palace of Pioneers” (1981, voiced by Efim Katsirov)
“And in this fairy tale it was like this...” (1984)
“Little Brownie Kuzya” (1985-1987, voiced by Tatyana Peltzer)
"Wait for it!" (16th issue) (1986)
“Dear Leshy” (1988, voiced by Viktor Proskurin)
“Two Bogatyrs” (1989, voiced by Maria Vinogradova)
“Dreamers from the village of Ugory” (1994, voiced by Kira Smirnova)
“Grandma Yozhka and others” (2006, voiced by Tatyana Bondarenko)
“The New Adventures of Grandma Yozhka” (2008, voiced by Tatyana Bondarenko)
“Dobrynya Nikitich and the Serpent Gorynych” (2006; Russia) directed by Ilya Maksimov, Baba Yaga was voiced by Natalya Danilova.
“About Fedot the Sagittarius, a daring fellow” (2008; Russia) directed by Lyudmila Steblyanko, Baba Yaga was voiced by Alexander Revva.
“Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf” (2011; Russia) directed by Vladimir Toropchin, Baba Yaga was voiced by Liya Akhedzhakova.
Poetry
Grandma Yaga's birthday
A cracked cup and lingonberry tea. But my heart is heavy - There is no one to meet. I baked pies with jam in the morning. It’s Grandma Yaga’s birthday... No guests will come Say hello, Wish you health, Many long years to come. An old hut, and taiga all around. And old Grandma Yaga is sad... It just happened, it just happened - Somehow it didn’t work out, Somehow it didn’t work out. I accidentally wiped away my tears with my shirt... A cracked cup and cold tea...
T. GoetheUBA YAGI Izbushka limped - Like Baba Yaga, she is also an old woman. Her knee hurts very much in the morning, Of course, damned arthritis! Granny Izbushka begins to treat: She pours hot water into a tub, And, splashing potions there little by little, Steam, - she offers her , - leg! What kind of potion is this - a huge secret! Grandmother has kept it for a thousand years! It contains a hundred fly agarics and birch buds, Two snake skins, cuckoo tears, More cobwebs from the surrounding bushes... But I’m not ready to tell you the exact recipe.
***Fir-trees and pine trees,
Prickly needles.
Without a broom I'm like without hands,
Without my broom!
I can't fly without a broom,
There is nothing to cover the tracks with.
Woe, woe for Yaga,
If you can, help.
Look at me,
Well, why am I not beautiful?
My maiden beauty
Can't help but like it!
I'll walk in front of you,
I'll dance, I'll sing.
Well, what a cutie I am,
How I love myself!
About Baba Yaga They say very stupidly: The leg is bone, a broom and a mortar. And the arms are crooked, and the teeth are sticking out, and the nose is very long and bent into a hook.
I will quickly destroy the formed image: Please look into my pure soul. And there you will discover such distances as you have never seen anywhere.
In my soul I am kind, Good, fair... Not very much, But still beautiful. And in everyone I only see the Good, I don’t even hurt a booger In my soul.
But if inside I am kind and beautiful, then on top, on the outside, I am cunning and dangerous. I will defeat any of you in life, or even kill you... But in my soul I will regret it...
(Eduard Uspensky)
V. Kosov Baba Yaga There is a hut at the edge of the forest, An old woman has been living there for many, many years, And she has no friends. So the hut spins around as that old woman wishes. She turns her back to the forest and the old woman is very happy. She doesn’t mind flying on a broom every night. That broom is famous for that, What stood at the trough. That trough is many years old and there is no replacement for it. She cooks dinner in it, If she really needs it. She washes clothes in it, She even props up the doors, So that a random draft does not chill her side.
E. Lipatova. Song of Baba Yaga The path is overgrown with weeds, There is quinoa in the garden, There is no way for uninvited guests, Neither here nor there! There are thistles in the yard, There are boogers in the underground, Vasily the cat catches fleas All day long on the bench. It’s bad to live alone in the wilderness - Sing, Vasily, for the soul! It’s sickening to live in the wilderness to the old lady - No girlfriend, no movie... We ate chicken legs from the hut with Vaska a long time ago. It hurts here and there it hurts, They say it’s radiculitis, Sleep has disappeared, and the light is not nice... If only Leshy would call!
K. Strelnik Lonely Grandma Yozhka . Next to her are an owl and cats, And even chicken legs don’t make her happy. Everyone is afraid of meeting her, They don’t want to sit in the oven. Granny thought about how to entice guests? If only she didn’t hang out with the devil, But she should go in for sports, And invite the neighbors for a drink tea with cake. And then the chicken legs would dance along the path, and the owl and the cats would sing along with the guests.
Sorkin In a deep forest there is a hut on chicken legs at the edge. It stands two steps from the forest. Grandma Yaga lives there
***Baba Yaga has been in bed for a whole month. Illness, illnesses have overcome her. - Oh, I’m poor! - Yaga sighs, “My bone leg is aching.
This is jelly made from mold! Haven’t you tried tea before? Drink it and you’ll immediately forget about the merry-go-round of the world! It doesn’t taste so good, But it takes away the tremors, You’ll be healthy by tomorrow, Unless you die! (L. Filatov “About Fedot” - Sagittarius, a daring fellow")
Appendix 7
Games
In the dark forest there is a hut, (we walk) It stands backwards, (turn) In that hut there is an old woman, (leans) Grandmother Yaga lives. (turn back) Crooked nose, (show nose) Large eyes, (show eyes) Like coals are burning. Wow, how angry! (we shake our fingers) My hair is standing on end, (hands up)
One of the guys playing is Baba Yaga, he stands in the corner of the room. The guys come up to him and tease him:
Baba Yaga - Bone Leg, Fell from the stove, Broke her leg. Went to the garden, Scared the people. Ran to the bathhouse, Scared the bunny!
Grandma Hedgehog-Bone Leg, fell from the stove, broke her leg. She went outside and crushed the chicken. She went again and crushed forty-five!
Baba Yaga begins to jump on one leg, trying to catch one of the children dodging and running. Whoever Baba Yaga catches switches roles and the game continues.
Puzzles
An old woman lives in the forest. She has a miracle hut. She flies on a broomstick. She steals children at dawn. And she has a bone leg, Her name is...
This old lady doesn't like children. They often scare little ones with her. Grandma has a bone leg, The old woman's name is... .
There is an old woman standing, with a hut behind her. She is holding a broom. She is flying until it is dawn.
There is a hut, in the hut there is an old woman. The muzzle is sinewy, the leg is made of clay, The back is hunchbacked, the head is shaggy. Next to her is Ivanushka, What is this grandmother’s name?
A hut is lost in a dense forest. In the hut lives a difficult old woman - She takes a broom, sits in a mortar, and immediately flies over the forest like a bird!
In a deep forest in her hut, an old woman lives all alone. She doesn’t sweep the floor with a broom, The broom is the old woman’s plane!
Menu Appendix 8
Baba Yaga Pie
Description: This large and delicious apple pie can be baked both in the oven and in a slow cooker.
Chicken egg - 5 pcs.
Sugar (you can put 1 cup) - 3/4 cup.
Butter (or margarine, room temperature) - 250 g
Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. l.
Cinnamon (optional) - 1 tsp.
Wheat flour - 2 cups.
Soda (not baking powder!) - 1 tsp.
Apple (it is advisable to take firm apples) - 1 kg
Cocktail Baba Yaga
It’s immediately clear that there is a smell of Russian spirit here! A cocktail with the fabulous name “Baba Yaga” will immediately and for a long time immerse you in the very depths of the mythical reality of Russian folk tales.
Baba Yaga salad
300g. boiled chicken fillet; 150g. raw carrots, grated on a Korean grater; 150g. boiled beets - grated on a Korean grater; 1b. corn, 200g. red cabbage - finely chopped; green onions; 1p. chips; mayonnaise
Snack Baba Yaga
The top of the loaf;
1 boiled potato;
2 boiled eggs;
A bunch of parsley;
150 g cheese;
2 small carrots;
Sweet red pepper;
Cocktail straw;
2 peas of green peas;
10 sorrel leaves;
2 large carrots;
10 breadsticks;
Glossary of terms Appendix 9
Baba Yaga is a popular character in Russian folk tales. Usually,
evil old witch.
Yaga - to sting, to cause pain, to torment.
“Chicken legs” - this name most likely comes from the “chicken”, that is, smoke-fuelled, pillars on which the Slavs erected a “death hut”.
Myth is an ancient folk tale about legendary heroes, gods, and natural phenomena; unreliable story, fiction.
Mythology is a set of myths of a people; the science that studies myths.
A pestle is a short, heavy rod with a rounded end for pounding something in a mortar. (Stone, copper, wooden pestle.)
A broomstick is a stick with a rag wound at the end, a washcloth, needles for sweeping, a broom.
A fairy tale is the oldest folk genre of narrative literature, mainly of a fantastic nature, with the purpose of moralizing or entertaining.
A mortar is a heavy metal, wooden or stone vessel in which grains, bark, leaves, etc. are pounded with a pestle. Stupa with Baba Yaga (in fairy tales about Baba Yaga, who flies in a mortar and with a broom).
Baba Yaga from fairy tales still scares children - he will come, carry away and eat. She also appears in works for adults - for example, she is mentioned in the first film about John Wick. What kind of character is this?
Who is Baba Yaga?
There are several versions. According to one of them, this is an ancient Slavic goddess, and not at all evil - she patronized children and was called Baba Yoga.
With the advent of Christianity to the Slavic lands, the good patroness was transformed into an evil old woman. By the way, the goddess did not have any bone leg, but had a snake tail.
Scientists believe that initially Baba Yaga was not a mythical creature - she was a wise woman, a midwife who helped women give birth from their burdens. And her nickname came about because women in labor, when giving birth to a child, shouted loudly - “Yagali”.
Another version is connected with Siberia: they say that the ancient peoples who lived there wore strange fur clothes. It surprised and frightened the Slavs so much that they endowed those who wore it with supernatural powers - this is how the goblin and Baba Yaga appeared.
Well, the simplest version is this: these are witches and healers who usually lived on the outskirts of the village. And despite the fact that they helped people, the peasants were afraid of them and told different stories. This is how the collective image of a character known to everyone appeared.
The world of the living and the dead - in one hut
It was believed that this old woman belonged to two worlds at once. And therefore, by the way, she could either be an evil child abductor or a relatively positive character helping the main characters. Hence the bone leg - this is what physically connected her with everything beyond the grave. And her home was not easy, because Baba Yaga’s hut stood on chicken legs.
This is how researchers interpret the request known from children's fairy tales for her unusual hut on chicken legs: as long as her door faces the thicket of the forest, she is part of the world of the dead. When she turns to the one asking, it is as if she returns in this way to the world of the living. And the inhabitant of the hut simply becomes a moderately harmful, but wise grandmother who will help both with deeds and with advice.
Yagi-Yagishna always has a hooked nose, she is usually hunchbacked and has poor vision. It must certainly be shaggy and, of course, with a bone leg. There is usually no emphasis on clothing, but in some fairy tales she is described as an old woman dressed in traditional Slavic attire.
Scientists' views on Baba Yaga as a mythological archetype
According to some researchers, this is a hellish goddess who loves bloodshed, feeding her own granddaughters with human blood (especially children's blood).
According to another scientific version, she embodies matriarchy on the one hand, because she is the mistress of the forest. On the other hand, in the tales of Baba Yaga they also saw echoes of animalism (the theory belongs to V. Propp) - that is why her hut stands on chicken legs.
And finally, there is a theory according to which the image of the character came from the Greek myths about the goddess Hecate, so this scientific point of view categorizes Baba Yaga as a guide to the world of the dead (aka the Far Far Away Kingdom).
BABA YAGA is a well-known character from fairy-tale mythology, known to us since childhood.
I’ll add it to the general description: he lives in a hut on chicken legs, without windows or doors, roasts children in the stove, prepares potions and various potions. Let's try to figure out where this character, Baba Yaga, came from in Russian mythology. Of the many hypotheses about the origin of Baba Yaga, I adhere to the following.
Historian and writer A. Ivanov refers to the custom of the Finno-Ugric people, which dates back to pagan times. They believed that the dead helped them from the other world, and after the death of a loved one they made a “baba” doll, or ittarma, into which the spirit of the deceased would inhabit. Then they wrapped this doll in a fur coat made from animal skins, with the fur outward - yaga. Women wore such a fur coat. Hence the name - Baba Yaga. At that time there was a matriarchy, which explains the feminine gender of the doll.
After the “baba” was wrapped in a yaga, they put together a sacred building called somyakh - a log house “without windows, without doors” (see photo in the album), and placed the doll there. Jewelry and other attributes of the deceased were placed along with the doll and taken to the depths of the forest, far from settlements. Then the building was installed on the trunks of cut trees, so that neither animals could reach it nor people could steal it. And there were many who wanted to profit from the treasures, “I’m going there, I don’t know where,” but they did not return - such mysterious disappearances added horror to the image of Baba Yaga, as some kind of evil force.
- Why on chicken legs? - the trunks of the cut trees were “fumigated” with juniper branches, hence “chickens”, not chicken ones.
- Why “no windows, no doors”? - a ritual doll does not need windows. Why a bone leg? - a sign of a dead person, belonging to the kingdom of the dead.
- Why does he fly in a mortar? - a stupa is a funeral urn, often wooden among the Slavic peoples; it was believed that the soul of the deceased was hidden there.
- Why a broom? - This is a traditional feminine remedy associated with the magic of cleansing power.
The frightening image of the evil witch Baba Yaga is accompanied by a belief about roasting in an oven. In fact, this is how healers nursed babies and treated children. They wrapped the child in dough and put him in the oven, where he was “baked”, carried to term, or recovered if he was sick. And was reborn for a new life.
According to the research of ethnographers, ancient tribes also had such a ritual, it was called “purification by fire” and served for the initiation of adolescents. It was conducted by an old woman priestess in a cave or deep forest, where teenagers must symbolically die in order to be reborn as men and become full-fledged members of the tribe and get married.
The initiating role of Baba Yaga and the ritual are encrypted in fairy tales. Researchers of fairy tales V.Ya. Propp and V.N. Toporov note: the hero ends up in Baba Yaga’s hut, i.e. into the world of the dead, “dies,” undergoes trials and is reborn in a new quality. At the same time, Baba Yaga is an agent of change.
It is obvious that all the attributes of Baba Yaga are associated with death, and this undoubtedly loses the perception of her as a wise woman, a witch, i.e. knowledgeable, able and transmitting her knowledge, healing, “women - ritualists.”
This perception reflects our deepest fears, the horror of the unknown, the unknown, the invisible.
And yet, Baba Yaga is the archetype* of the wise Primordial Woman, the Wild Mother - mentor (K.P. Estes). Mothers who help and punish. That is why this image is so firmly rooted in our collective and individual culture.
What do you think, Baba Yaga is WHAT?
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Brief meaning of the name Yaga. ?
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Yaga - Yaga - noisy, loud, abusive; from rage - scream, rage. Yaga's hut stands in front of the Smorodina River, across which there is a bridge connecting two worlds: Yav and Nav. In fairy tales, two images of Yaga are preserved. First: an old woman who helps the knights get various kinds of wonderful things or defeat a villain (Kashchei, Snake, Miracle Yudo, etc.) Second: an old woman who leads the maiden army (snake women), living beyond the “steppe river”. This image arose under the influence of “wife-ruled” nomads (Cimmerians, Sarmatians).
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