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We are going to spend the next few minutes exploring the ways folklore is used to understand real-life horrors and the way those horrors can follow generations. NPR's Mallory Yu brings us the story ...

While on the tour, Nethercott started an outline for the new book with a story based on a blend of Russian folklore and Jewish history. She said she was always fond of the myth of Baba Yaga, a crone ...

There's a scary witch who lives in the forest and likes to eat little girls and boys -- and she's coming to a location near you. Thistle Theatre's "Baba Yaga and the Bag of Gold" brings the infamous ...

Theatre Intime’s new show “Yaga,” first written and produced by artistic director Richard Rose of the Tarragon Theater in 2019 and now directed by Kat McLauglin ’25, is a humorous and riveting ...

In American movies, the Baba Yaga wears a tailored tactical suit, carries an HK P30L as his primary, drives a 1969 Mustang Mach1, and answers to the name of John Wick. In Slavic folklore, the original ...

Thistlefoot is the debut novel by folklorist GennaRose Nethercott. For centuries, the crone Baba Yaga has been a figure in Slavic folklore — the kind of character who might lend you a magical candle ...

In her debut book Thistlefoot, author GennaRose Nethercott reimagines the centuries-old character Baba Yaga as a Jewish woman living in a shtetl in 1919 Russia, in a time of civil war and pogroms. We ...

For centuries, the crone Baba Yaga has been a figure in Slavic folklore — the kind of character who might lend you a magical candle or kill you and use your skull to decorate her house on chicken legs ...