So enduring is the legend of Baba Yaga that a new anthology of short stories, Into the Forest (Black Spot Books), has just been released, featuring 23 interpretations of the character, all by ...

Baba Yaga has been a figure of fascination for many writers (see – seriously – Angela Carter’s The Old Wives’ Fairy Tale Book.) In the newest, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, the latest in ...

Baba Yaga, the mysterious witch of Russian mythology, is one of the most iconic and terrifying figures in Slavic folklore.

But "Yaga" is most commonly interpreted as Baba witch, old granny witch, or evil Baba. If we look at the variants of her name that use "Iaga," there are more theories including association with ...

Nature and civilization square off in Jessica Oreck’s poetic meditation-cum-documentary “The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga.” Alternating between two complementary narratives (fairy-tale ...

Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch has just rolled out, and it's one heck of a DLC that makes Rise of the Tomb Raider an even richer game all in all. That's because they applied a criteria based ...

Rise of the Tomb Raider’s first piece of story-driven DLC Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch is an enjoyable, if brief, adventure that adds a welcome supernatural element to familiar puzzle ...

For Lindy Ryan, the concept of a women-centric horror anthology came before the idea of a Baba Yaga-themed book… but the great witch of the forest exerted her influence.

The Slavic crone, known for living in a house built on chicken legs and feasting on children, is a complex, and arguably feminist, figure – as a new book shows, says David Barnett.