Baba Yaga appears in music ... that she completely upends the nurturing mother stereotype applied to women by eating children rather than pushing them out or breastfeeding them.

Baba Yaga forces her to cook and clean ... into the mountains to die so that others in the family would have more to eat. The Yama Uba is the hungry demon born from this practice.

Oh, about the name: Baba Yaga is a recurring character in Slavic folklore, alternately depicted as a child-eating villain or a kindly old woman assisting the protagonist, whom the rocker developed ...

As the quintessential hag, Baba Yaga is seen as a mercurial crone who acts as the guardian of the woods in one breath and a ruthless witch who will kill men and eat naughty children in another.

In the Ukrainian folk tale, the demonic ways of Baba Yaga – a child-eating and broom-flying witch – are defeated by the spirit of generosity and kindness. It’s therefore a somewhat ironic nom de ...