Welcome to What The Heck's Creature Feature! These episodes release on Saturdays and look at folklore and cryptids from around the world! The same academic style is applied to these episodes, but they look at history and eyewitness reports before describing the creature of the week! A lot of the time, theories are a bit more scarce than the main episodes, but the content is still just as interesting.

This week we're looking at Baba Yaga. Existing solely in folklore, she is said to be the purest form of evil. Her appearance in fairy tales from Slavic countries and Russia show her to be more aligned with the Trickster archetype though. She has a taste for eating children, but often lets them get away. What is Baba Yaga? How does she get around? Where did she come from? Listen in to find out!

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References:-

Barnett, David. Baba Yaga: The Greatest “wicked Witch” of All? BBC, 21 Nov. 2022, https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221118-baba-yaga-the-greatest-wicked-witch-of-all. 

Jarvis, Alex. “The Many Faces of Baba Yaga — The Cambridge Language Collective.” The Cambridge Language Collective, The Cambridge Language Collective, 3 Dec. 2020, https://www.thecambridgelanguagecollective.com/europe/baba-yaga. 

Mark, Joshua J. “Baba Yaga - World History Encyclopedia.” World History Encyclopedia, https://www.worldhistory.org#organization, 7 Oct. 2021, https://www.worldhistory.org/Baba_Yaga/. 

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