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

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Fri Mar 11 10:33:03 PST 2005


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.
>>
>> 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....
>
>Hope this helps
>
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