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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 14, 2021 1:33:38 GMT -5
Chicken-legged hut, Baba Yaga lives in a house standing on chicken legs, which enables the house to move about in accordance with Baba Yaga's wishes. When her house moves it spins while emitting a screeching noise. (Russian folklore)
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Post by hengest on Jun 15, 2021 14:11:02 GMT -5
Chicken-legged hut, Baba Yaga lives in a house standing on chicken legs, which enables the house to move about in accordance with Baba Yaga's wishes. When her house moves it spins while emitting a screeching noise. (Russian folklore)  The most likely source I have heard for this is the Finnic practice (non-Slavic and therefore likely strange to the first Eastern Slavs to encounter it) of making such houses for human remains and putting them on stumps to keep them off the wet ground and avoid rot. The hut in folklore can act as a gateway to the world of the dead or the living depending on its orientation. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 15, 2021 14:14:27 GMT -5
Love that picture!
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