Baba Yaga: Difference between revisions
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* [[Evil Uncle|Evil Aunt]]: In some stories, Baba Yaga has a beautiful, younger (but still evil) sister who seduces and marries widowed fathers in order to send her new stepchildren off to their new "aunt." Don't worry, they will usually escape with the help of their dead mother or something...
* [[Evil Old Folks]]
* [[The Fair Folk]]: Possibly related to them.
* [[Familiar]]: Usually has several, either animals, or her invisible servants, or both.
* [[Flying Broomstick]]: Sometimes, but she's usually depicted flying with the mortar and pestle.
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* [[Iconic Item]]: She flies around in a giant ''mortar and pestle''. Some later tales (and toys) depict her flying with the usual for witches - a broomstick.
** The hut on bird legs is also quite iconic.
* [[Impossible Task]]: In the story of ''Vasilisa the Beautiful'', she gives the heroine a series of these, including separating grains of rotten corn from sound corn, and separating poppy seeds from grains of soil. Vasilisa accomplishes this via the aid of her mother's enchanted doll.
* [[Nature Spirit]]: Some stories claim this of her, stating she can create storms.
* [[Never Mess with Granny]]: She is an old powerful witch after all. Though in some stories, she suffers from [[Badass Decay]].
* [[Public Domain Character]] Has shown up in [[Dungeons & Dragons]], [[Quest for Glory]] and [[Fables]].
* [[Sacred Hospitality]]: One thing you ''must'' abide by if you are bold enough to visit her house, although that does not guarantee safety.
* [[Sapient House]]: Her hut is able to move on its own with its chicken legs.
* [[Terrible Trio]]: In one story, she had three servants, mounted knights that represent the daybreak, the sun, and the night.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: She is repulsed by parental blessings, the reason Vasilisa survived her encounter.
* [[Wicked Witch]]
* [[Wizards Live Longer]]: No one knows how old she is, but in some stories she's been around for a ''very'' long while.
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