slavic pantheon
Baba Yaga
Bone-Mother · Iron-Toothed · She Who Lives in the Hut on Hen's Legs
Baba — bony grandmother of the deep wood — open the door.
domain
wild witchcraftinitiationhidden knowledgelife-and-death
sacred symbols
mortar and pestle · skull lamp · bone fence · hen's leg
she accepts
bread · milk · kvass · poppy seeds
Baba Yaga is the Slavic witch-grandmother who lives in a hut on chicken legs surrounded by a fence of skulls. She is dangerous, demanding, and just — those who serve her well are richly rewarded, the disrespectful are eaten.
she reminds you
older than the churches that tried to bury her. she keeps to thresholds, hearths, and rivers; honour the household spirits before the great names.