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The Girl as Soldier (German: Das Mädchen als Soldat) is a Russian folktale collected by Russian folklorist Ivan Khudyakov , originally titled "Опять Сноха" ("The Daughter-in-Law, Again"). The tale features a heroine that masquerades her gender by adopting a male disguise, passing by tests designed to discover her gender, and is later ...
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 girl begins her journey: she oils the hinges of a door; gives pieces of ham to two dogs; gives lard to a cat and needles and pins to a group of girls. The human girl asks Baba Yaga's sister for the reed. Baba Yaga's sister lets her have the reed, while she goes to prepare the bathhouse.
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Baba Yaga goes to feed the Ardars, and Ivan and Clava are unexpectedly freed by a lovely young girl, who calls herself Katia, the Stone Countess's daughter. Clava takes the chance to run away from Baba Yaga's house, but Ivan is caught by Baba Yaga. She attempts to make a soup of him but is distracted again by Iangul, the Ardars' commander, who ...
The girl goes after him and reaches the spinning house of a Baba Yaga, who takes her in, gives her three pairs of boots, three wafers and three canes so she could walk to Baba Yaga's sister. The girl continues on her journey and travels to the second Baba Yaga, who gives her a ball to throw and follow to the third sister.
The girl doesn’t do this, but at night the same thing happens to her. On the way, Baba Yaga says that she had previously seen magic similar to this. 1000 years ago, the good sorcerer Belogor lived in these lands, but, finding himself on the verge of death, he decided to become immortal, for this he forged a treasure sword.
A mouse scurried out and said it would tell her what she needed to know if she gave it porridge; she did, and it told her that Baba Yaga was heating the bath house to steam her, then she would cook her. The mouse took over her spinning, and the girl took her brother and fled. Baba Yaga sent the swan geese after her.