Her transformation begins with her tail, then cartoonishly large hands, wide reptilian bosom/hips, and ending with her head and face. When Ludmilla drinks Baba Yaga's potion, her body gradually takes on a grotesquely obese reptilian form. She wears a black and gold corset with pink ribbons, a purple skirt with a yellow ribbon shaped like a tie, and black slippers. Ludmilla is a very slender woman with blonde hair, blue eyes, red lips, and pale skin. All in all, Ludmilla's supreme vanity proves to be her undoing when she drinks the magic potion believing she's as beautiful as a flower, only to instead transform into a dragon, which eventually leads to her downfall. She also has no patience when her henchman Vol misunderstands her orders and locks him up along with the heroes for his failure. Ludmilla is extremely sly as she was able to kidnap Ivan and frame Baba Yaga for it, then send Bartok on a fool's errand to "rescue" Ivan, just to get the bat out of the picture. She also sees Bartok as nothing but a nuisance. She is completely full of herself and believes a beautiful woman deserves the throne instead of the young Prince Ivan. Aliverdíev.Ludmilla is best described as vain, ambitious, manipulative, selfish, deceitful, devious, and short-tempered. Baba Yagá's childhood and youth were first described in the story The Bay (Lukomorie) by A. In particular, Baba Yagá appears in Andréi Belanin's book cycle "The Detective Agency of Tsar Goroj (Царь Горох)". The figure of Baba Yagá probably derives from "the Witch", the third component of the Tripartite Goddess (Virgin, Mother and Witch), symbol of the three ages of women.īaba Yaga is widely used by modern Russian fairy tale authors, and since the 1990s of the 20th century, in "Russian Fantasy". It is also said that she ages a year every time she is asked a question and that to rejuvenate she drinks a tea made from strange blue roses as well as that she enormously rewards those who bring her some. In Bulgaria, children are told that if they misbehave, Baba Yagá (or Dyado Yag, Дядо Яг) will come to take them away with a sack and eat them. In others she says that she has two sisters, named after her and with the same appearance. In others it is said that he keeps the "Waters of Life and Death", as she is "the White Lady of Death and Renaissance". In some, she helps the people who serve her. Baba Yagá also has the white, red and black knights at her service, who control the day, sunset and night.īaba Yaga has appeared in different stories of Russian folklore, and some of them show different facets of her. It is also guarded by the invisible servants of Baba Yaga, who appear as spectral hands. To enter the house, Baba Yaga says the incantation "Little House, turn your back on the forest and turn towards me." The inside of the hut is always full of meat and wine. The idea of a house with chicken feet could derive from the huts of certain Finno-Ugric peoples, who built them in this way to protect themselves from animals. The fence of her hut is adorned with skulls, inside which she places candles. She lives in a hut that stands on two huge chicken feet that help her move around all of Russia. Baba Yaga does not allow any "blessed" person to remain on her property as long as she knows that the person has a blessing. Baba Yagá flies on a mortar (sometimes a pot) and paddles the air with a silver broom. Despite consuming large amounts of meat daily, she always looks lean and bony. Her teeth allow her to break bones and tear meat easily. These two legs represent the world of the living and the world of the dead through which she wanders.īaba Yaga is a wicked and cruel being, but not totally evil eats people, usually children. Baba Yaga is old, bony and wrinkled, with a blue nose and steel teeth, she has a normal leg and a bone leg, which is why she is often nicknamed "Baba Yaga Paw of Bone".
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