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Baba-Iaga

Baba-Iaga is the alternative spelling of Baba Yaga.

Meaning of Baba Yaga

Proper noun

Baba Yaga or the Baba Yaga

  1. (Slavic mythology) In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a character who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder.
    • [L]ooking like the hut, minus the fat chicken legs, of Baba Yaga, the old witch with iron teeth and an appetite for a human supper.2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 143

Questions about Baba-Iaga

What is Baba-Iaga the alternative spelling of?
Baba-Iaga is the alternative spelling of Baba Yaga.

Words near Baba-Iaga in the dictionary

  1. baba ghanoush
  2. Baba Iaga
  3. Baba Jaga
  4. Baba Sheikh
  5. Baba Yaga
  6. Baba-Iaga
  7. bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk
  8. bababooey
  9. bababudanite
  10. babaco
  11. babacoote

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