About Baba Yaga and Shamanism in Early Russia

Andre Welsh
Nov 6 · 2 min read
A papier-mache miniature

Why did Baba Yaga eat the virgins? Well, science does not tell us who Baba Yaga ate, and when. Of course, nobody wanted to end up on the baking sheet in the oven, and even Prince Igor himself, the word about whom spread throughout our multi-ethnic Motherland, did not want to die young and to surrender to the hating and bitching fascist witch. Therefore, while sitting on stakes, warriors in chainmail armor and…

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