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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 ganouj
  2. baba ganoush
  3. baba ghannouj
  4. baba ghanouj
  5. baba ghanoush
  6. Baba Iaga
  7. Baba Jaga
  8. Baba Sheikh
  9. Baba Yaga
  10. Baba-Iaga
  11. bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk

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