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Baba
Yaga by Ivan Bilibin
There
are many stories of Baba Yaga in Russian
folklore. A fearsome witch, she is hideous
to look upon (apart from her iron teeth,
which can be quite attractive from some
angles).
In
this picture, she is seen driving over
the forest floor in her mortar, urging
it along with her pestle. With her left
hand she is wiping away her traces with
a broomstick (made of silver birch).
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