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Who Is Baba Yaga? The Slavic Witch Has a Complicated Origin Story

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Who Is Baba Yaga? The Slavic Witch Has a Complicated Origin Story

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Stern@lemmy.worldM to Neat - For neat stuff you found@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago
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Trickster, mentor, probable goddess—Slavic folklore's most famous villain is so much more than a witch.
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    Terry Pratchett had a wonderful understanding of the patriarchal bullshit that made witches into villians and crones.

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