A Russian Tale - The Baba Yaga

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A Russian Tale - The Baba Yaga

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The Baba Yaga.
Narrator

Once upon a time there was an old couple.
The husband lost his wife and married again.
But he had a daughter by the first marriage, a young girl, and she found no favor in the eyes of her evil stepmother, who used to beat her, and consider how she could get her killed outright.
Narrator

One day the father went away somewhere or other, so the stepmother said to the girl,
Stepmother

“Go to your aunt, my sister, and ask her for a needle and thread to make you a shift.”
Narrator

Now that aunt was a Baba Yaga.
Well, the girl was no fool, so she went to a real aunt of hers first, and says she:
Girl

“Good morning, auntie!”
Aunt

“Good morning, my dear! what have you come for?”
Girl

“Mother has sent me to her sister, to ask for a needle and thread to make me a shift.”
Narrator

Then her aunt instructed her what to do.
Aunt

“There is a birch-tree there, niece, which would hit you in the eye— you must tie a ribbon round it;
there are doors which would creak and bang— you must pour oil on their hinges;
there are dogs which would tear you in pieces— you must throw them these rolls;
there is a cat which would scratch your eyes out— you must give it a piece of bacon.”
Narrator

So the girl went away, and walked and walked, till she came to the place.
There stood a hut, and in it sat weaving the Baba Yaga, the Bony-shanks.
Girl

“Good morning, auntie,”
Narrator

says the girl.

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The Baba Yaga.