Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods

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Our publication has been reviewed for educational use by Common Sense Education, Internet Scout (University of Wisconsin), Merlot (California State University), OER Commons and the School Library Journal. Yet something else was worse than all of this. Each night, the stepmother sat with Natasha’s father and told him that everything that went wrong in the house was his daughter’s fault. Sadly, the old man believed his new wife.

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Turning to the servant girl and gripping her tightly, she yelled, "Why did you take so long to prepare the bath?"

Baba Yaga is known to be one of the most powerful hags that has ever existed. As is common with hags, Baba Yaga delights in all things ugly and terrible. Her inhuman intellect and unfathomable magical abilities have caused her to ascend into one of the archfey, something that no other hag has managed before. Now listen,” said the cat. “I know why you are here, and that you are searching for the little boy named Peter. He is in a cage behind the house, but you can do nothing to help him now. Wait until after dinner, when the Baba Yaga goes to sleep. Then rub her eyes with pitch so that she cannot get them open, and you may escape with the child through the forest.”

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Here's a breakdown of characters who have presided over factions in the Feywild in previous works: Queen Titania

Seelie and unseelie do not directly correlate with good and evil, though many mortals make that equation. Many seelie fey are good, and many unseelie are evil, but their opposition to each other stems from their queens’ jealous rivalry, not abstract moral concerns. Ugly denizens of the Feywild, such as fomorians and hags, are almost never members of either court, and fey of independent spirit reject the courts entirely. The courts have warred at times, but they also compete in more-or-less friendly contests and even ally with one another in small and secret ways. This is a vintage fairy tale, and may contain violence. We would encourage parents to read beforehand if your child is sensitive to such themes. Baba Yaga slammed the gates closed. Spinning around, she pointed her long skinny finger at the dog. "You!" she hollered, "why didn't you tear her to pieces when she ran out of the house?" Ah!" said the dog, "in all the years that I have served you, you never threw me anything but an old bone. But the girl gave me real meat and bread." But when Peter heard her voice, which was very coarse and loud, he knew it must be a Baba Yaga calling him, so he said: