For centuries, the crone Baba Yaga has been a figure in Slavic folklore — the kind of character who might lend you a magical candle or kill you and use your skull to decorate her house on chicken legs ...

Also known as Baba Yaga Boney Legs, this figure appears in stories as an iron-toothed witch with a skeletal frame (despite her massive appetite). However, she does not have the stereotypical ...

Early in “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” the heroes encounter the movie’s primary antagonist: a woman in a gray suit who has the supernatural-seeming ability to pass through solid matter. When Scott Lang, a.k ...

In her debut book Thistlefoot, author GennaRose Nethercott reimagines the centuries-old character Baba Yaga as a Jewish woman living in a shtetl in 1919 Russia, in a time of civil war and pogroms. We ...

Optimized for nocturnal operations, Ukraine's Vampire attack drones, nicknamed Baba Yaga by Russian troops, evoke the image of an elusive witch from Slavic folklore due to their terrifying and hard-to ...

A haggard but magical Russian crone is moving to Fly Ranch next week. One of the most spellbinding Burning Man pieces of 2018, Baba Yaga's House, will be relocated next week to the lush, developing ...