Jessica Oreck's experimental doc combines an ancient Slavic fairy tale with scenes of modern-day Eastern Europe By THR Staff The Vanquishing of Witch Baba Yaga Still - H 2014 The film is at once ...

Some characters in old stories are scary in a way that makes you want to hear more about them. Baba Yaga is definitely one of those characters. She appears in many Slavic tales and is known as a witch ...

President of the aggressor country Vladimir Putin has decided to make more popular heroes of Russian history and folklore who correspond to "traditional values", for this he has instructed the ...

Though she's a character from a fairy tale, Baba Yaga is no fairy godmother. She flies around in her mortar and pestle and keeps the skulls of her victims on fenceposts around her house. That's the ...

Like the more than 100 versions of the classic fairy tale "Cinderella," the beloved Russian folk tale "Baba Yaga" boasts many variations, each recounting the gruesome tale of the child-eating witch.

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Nature and civilization square off in Jessica Oreck’s poetic meditation-cum-documentary “The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga.” Alternating between two complementary narratives (fairy-tale and ...