Baba Yaga (was RE: [lbo-talk] Marketing the Chronicles of Narnia)

[Shane Mage]

Her "House on Fowl's Legs" is musically depicted in the penultimate
section of Moussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."
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>  > --- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  > A better book I encountered in second grade had
>>  > tales of Babi Yaga, a
>>  > Russian witch who lived in a house on chicken legs
>>  > that rotated when she was
>>  > away from home.  They were terrific stories, and I
>>  > find it strange that I
>>  > have never seen any reference to Babi Yaga as
>>  > children's reading since.
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>>  Do you remember the version or edition?  I hear bits
>>  and pieces of this and would love to hear more.
>>
>>  Andy
>>
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>Andy,
>Baba Yaga's story is here:
>http://www.mythinglinks.org/BabaYaga.html and here:
>http://hazel.forest.net/whootie/stories/baba_yaga_russia.html
>Looks like the source for these stories is "Baba Yaga"
>from "Baba Yaga and the Little Girl with the Kind
>Heart" from Old Peter's Russian Tales (Jonathan Cape
>Ltd: London, 1916), pp. 90-105....
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>Hope this helps
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