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Becoming Baba Yaga

Becoming Baba Yaga Trickster, Feminist, and Witch of the Woods

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"Explore the folklore of the trickster, villain, and rescuer known as Baba Yaga in a new light. "With Becoming Baba Yaga, Kris Spisak presents a robust work of scholarship. Baba Yaga is a wily shapeshifter, nearly impossible to pin down-but Spisak miraculously transforms alongside her, ever keeping up." -from the foreword by GennaRose Nethercott, bestselling author of Thistlefoot When darkness, fear, and instability inundate our daily lives, folktale figures like Baba Yaga speak to the dichotomy of our existence-the hope and the horror, the magic and the mundane. At once an old hag and an enchantress, a demon and wish granter, a feminist and nothing more than a fairytale, Baba Yaga is an endlessly complex folktale character. Becoming Baba Yaga provides an in-depth look at the Baba Yaga mythos and history through Slavic folklore. Filled with historical and cultural context, analyses, and the stories themselves that add depth to the conve

Book information

ISBN: 9781642970517
Publisher: RED WHEEL/WEISER
Imprint: Hampton Roads
Pub date:
DEWEY: 398.20947
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20240415
Language: English
Sales rank: 24253
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 254g
Height: 203mm
Width: 153mm
Spine width: 19mm