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The Magic Swan Geese (Russian: Гуси-лебеди, romanized: Gusi-lebedi) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki, [1] numbered 113. It is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 480A*.
Baba Yaga depicted in Tales of the Russian People (published by V. A. Gatsuk in Moscow in 1894) Baba Yaga being used as an example for the Cyrillic letter Б, in Alexandre Benois' ABC-Book Baba Yaga is an enigmatic or ambiguous character from Slavic folklore (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who has two opposite roles.
The next day, Baba Yaga asks the girl to shear her sheep in the woods. Her husband appears again and tells her that the "sheep" are wolves that will tear her to pieces, so he teaches her a magic command. The girl climbs up a tree, chants the magical command and the wolves shear themselves. Seeing the girl's newfound success, Baba Yaga then ...
Similar to a witch, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who appears as a deformed or ferocious-looking old woman. In Russian fairy tales, Baba Yaga flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, and dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs.
Baba Yaga's son goes to the market and peddles the bed, which Kartaus's daughter wishes to have, since, after all, she wants to be rewarded for the great favour she did her father. Kartaus buys the bed to his daughter, but the pigeons begin to coo a song about flying back to Baba Yaga beyond the blue sea.
Russian tale collections attest to the presence of Baba Yaga, the witch of Slavic folklore, as the antagonist in many of the stories. [ 26 ] Russian scholar T. V. Zueva suggests that this format must have developed during the period of the Kievan Rus , a period where an intense fluvial trade network developed, since this "East Slavic format ...
A Russian man is ready to spill secrets to the U.S. about Russia's stealth "White Swan" bomber. He’s offering the valuable intel in exchange for asylum.
A Palekh jewelry box depicting a scene from the fairy tale Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf. Russian lacquer art developed from the art of icon painting, which came to an end with the collapse of Imperial Russia. The icon painters, who previously had been employed by supplying not only churches but people's homes, needed a way ...