Baba Yaga is a well known witch of Slavic folklore.(Among South Slavs she appears under the name Baba Roga)She is a deformed and ferocious-looking woman. In fairy tales Baba Yaga dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs. Baba Yaga appears mostly as a figure used by parents to scare children who are not behaving well, such as "If you do not behave well Baba Roga will take you away and eat you!" According to Vladimir Propp's folktale morphology, Baba Yaga commonly appears as either a donor or a villain, or may be altogether ambiguous. Variations of the name Baba Yaga are found in many East Slavic languages. The first element is a babble word which gives the word бабушка (babushka or 'grandmother') in modern Russian, and babcia ('grandmother') in Polish. In Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Bulgarian and Romanian baba means 'grandmother' or 'old woman'.
