Baba Yaga
c. 1000 CE – 2026 CEattested
Slavic lands
- Slavic
A witch who lives in a hut that walks on chicken legs and flies through the forest in a mortar. Sometimes she eats you; sometimes she gives you exactly what you need. The key is politeness.
Known for
- the hut on chicken legs
- flies in a mortar
- tests rather than simply devours
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.