Fairy tales where there is a woman. Fairy-tale character Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga in cinema and animation

There lived a happy family in one village. They lived well, amicably, and their daughter Dashenka was growing up.

But suddenly trouble came to their house - the hostess caught a cold in the winter, fell ill and died. Her husband grieved and grieved and married another woman. At first she seemed both hard-working and kind, but she didn’t like her stepdaughter - she forced her to work a lot, constantly scolded her, and then she decided to completely destroy her. She thought and thought about how to do this, and she remembered that Baba Yaga was her distant relative, and they agreed to carry out their evil deed.

One day my father went to the meadows early in the morning to mow hay, and the stepmother said to Dasha:

Go to my aunt, who lives in the forest, and ask her for a needle and thread, I lost mine. I want to sew you a sundress.

Dasha was delighted and quickly got ready for the trip.

But the road was not close and passed through another village where Dashenka’s godmother lived, so she ran into her house to drink some water.

The godmother was delighted at the girl’s arrival, and she told her where she was in a hurry and why.

“Oh,” the godmother says to her, “your stepmother sent you to certain death, because this tete in the forest is Baba Yaga. I will try to help you, save you from death. And she taught me what to do. - Here’s some chicken meat for you, don’t eat it yourself, but save it for Baba Yaga’s cat, he’ll help you escape from her. Here's a piece of bread for you, but you don't eat it either, you give it to the dogs that are guarding the house. And this is oil, you can lubricate the gates with it so that they open for you and don’t creak. I’ll also give you a ribbon, it might come in handy, and a handkerchief - you can give it to the master’s maid.

Dasha thanked her godmother for the parting words and ran into the forest. It goes on and on, but the forest gets darker and the trees get denser and there is no one to ask if it’s going right. Suddenly he sees a raven sitting on an oak tree.

Am I going the right way? Dasha asks him.

“That’s right, that’s right,” the raven answers. No one has come to us for a long time, the hostess will be very glad to see you.

Finally, the forest parted in front of the girl, and she saw a high fence, and behind it - a hut on chicken legs, on ram horns.

Dasha came up and saw an old woman sitting on a bench, warming herself. She said hello and said that her stepmother had sent her for a needle and thread to sew a sundress. Baba Yaga understood her stepmother’s trick:

I'll give you a needle and thread. Yes, you’ve been walking for a long time, you’re tired, apparently, take a rest for now, you can weave some canvas for yourself. And I’ll tell the maid to light the stove and boil the samovar, and we’ll have dinner.

Dasha went to the hut to weave canvas, and Baba Yaga called the maid:

You heat the bathhouse and wash the girl better, and I’ll sleep, rest, and eat her for dinner.

And Dasha sits in the hut and hears these words. And when Baba Yaga went to bed, the girl ran up to the maid, gave her a handkerchief, and asked:

Save me, darling, don’t let evil happen!

“Okay,” she says, “I’ll bring firewood, but first I’ll water it with water, and only then I’ll try to light it, and it’ll take me a while.”

Dasha sat down to weave again. And then a cat came running from the street. Dasha gave him a delicious chicken leg and asked him to teach her how to escape from Baba Yaga now.

The cat showed the girl to the table where a towel and a comb lay.

Take these things and run away from here as quickly as possible while Baba Yaga is sleeping. And when you hear that she is chasing you and is already close, throw a comb on the ground - a dense forest will grow. While Baba Yaga is pushing through it, you will run far. But, if you still don’t make it home, and Baba Yaga is catching up with you again, throw a towel on the ground - the river will overflow. While Baba Yaga is crossing it, you will be at home.

Dasha thanked the cat, took a comb and a towel and wanted to slowly sneak out of the hut. But the dogs won’t let her in, they want to bite her. Dasha threw bread to the dogs, they didn’t even have time to bark, they released the fugitive.

The girl ran up to the gate, smeared oil on its hinges, they opened silently and let the girl through.

A birch tree grows outside the gate, the faithful guardian of the witch, making noise, not letting Dasha through, wanting to quilt her eyes. The girl stroked the birch tree and tied its branches with a ribbon so that they would not bend to the ground or break in the wind. The grateful birch tree also let Dasha through.

The fugitive rushes through the forest as fast as she can.

And Baba Yaga woke up, stretched, and, lo and behold, there was no girl, only the cat was sitting on the bench.

Oh, you old parasite, why didn’t you let the girl out without scratching her?

And the cat answered her:

I served you for so many years, you only threw me bones for lunch, and the girl gave me a meat chicken leg.

Baba Yaga ran out into the yard and let the dogs reprimand:

Oh, you liars, why didn’t you bite and tear the girl apart?

And her dogs:

We have been serving you for many years, but we have seen nothing from you except dried bones, and the girl gave us some bread.

Baba Yaga rushed to the gate.

And you, rotten gates, why did you open, why didn’t you detain the fugitive?

And the gate for her:

We have been standing here for so many years, we have been creaking for so many days, and you have never taken care of us, and the girl has lubricated us with butter.

Then Baba Yaga angrily attacked the birch tree - why didn’t she detain the girl, why didn’t she whip out her eyes and entangle her with the branches.

And the birch tree found something to say to its owner:

My branches have grown so much over the years that they bend to the ground, break from the wind, and you never even tied them up with a thread, and the girl did not spare me a ribbon.

Baba Yaga called her servant:

Oh, you slacker, why haven’t you lit the stove yet, haven’t washed the girl, and haven’t woken me up.

And the worker also tells her:

I’ve been working for you for many years, but I haven’t heard a kind word, but the girl spoke to me kindly and gave me a handkerchief.

Baba Yaga shouted at everyone, swung a broom at the cat, kicked the dogs with her shoe, angrily pushed the gate, broke a branch from a birch tree, sat down in the mortar and rushed to catch up with Dasha.

And Dasha runs through the forest, trying to get home in time, where her father will not let her be offended.

Dasha stopped, listened, heard - the earth was shaking, birds were flying away, animals were different sides they run away - this is Baba Yaga rushing in a mortar and is about to catch up with the girl.

Dasha threw the comb on the ground - a tall, tall and impassable forest grew behind her. Baba Yaga rushed in, but she couldn’t get through the thick thicket; she had to gnaw trees to make a path for herself.

Baba Yaga came to the river, but she couldn’t get across the river, she herself couldn’t swim, and her stupa was already old and full of holes. She grabbed a hare running past and ordered him to find a herd of bulls nearby and drive them here so that they could drink water from the river.

The herd came, the bulls began to drink water, but the water did not decrease.

Out of anger and powerlessness, Baba Yaga rushed to the water's edge and began to drink the water herself. Saw-saw, saw-saw and - BURST!

At this time, Dasha ran home. And then the father returned home from mowing and asked where his daughter was. The wife tells him:

I sent her to my aunt in the forest for a needle and thread, I want to sew her a sundress, but apparently she got lost.

The father became worried and began to get ready for the forest. And then my daughter runs in, out of breath, flushed, with scratches all over her face and hands. She told everything to her father. He got angry and kicked the evil, treacherous woman out of the house.

And Dasha soon grew up and began to run the house herself and cook delicious pies. And so they lived together, happily.

artist S. Danilenko

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Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman; they had no children. No matter what they did, no matter how they prayed to God, the old woman still did not give birth. Once an old man went into the forest to pick mushrooms; An old grandfather comes his way. “I know,” he says, “what’s on your mind; you keep thinking about children. Go around the village, collect an egg from each yard and plant a chook on those eggs; you’ll see what happens!” The old man returned to the village; in their village there were forty-one courtyards; So he went around all the yards, collected an egg from each and planted a hook on forty-one eggs. Two weeks passed, the old man looked, the old woman looked, and from those testicles boys were born; forty strong, healthy ones, but one failed - frail and weak! The old man began to give the boys names; He gave it to everyone, but the last one didn’t have a name. “Well,” he says, “be you Zamoryshek!”

The old man and the old woman’s children are growing up, growing by leaps and bounds; They grew up and began to work, helping their father and mother: forty fellows are busy in the field, and Zamoryshek manages the house. The time has come for haymaking; the brothers mowed the grass, put up haystacks, worked for a week and returned to the village; They ate what God sent and went to bed. The old man looks and says: “Young is green! They eat a lot, sleep soundly, but they haven’t done anything!” - “Look first, father!” - Zamoryshek responds. The old man got ready and went to the meadows; I looked and saw forty stacks of sour cream: “Oh, well done guys! How much they mowed and swept into stacks in one week.”

The next day the old man again went to the meadows; he wanted to admire his property; I arrived - and one haystack was gone! He returned home and said: “Oh, children! After all, one haystack has disappeared.” “Nothing, father!” replies Zamoryshek. “We’ll catch this thief; give me a hundred rubles, and I’ll do the job.” He took a hundred rubles from his father and went to the blacksmith: “Can you forge me such a chain that it’s enough to wrap around a person from head to toe?” - “Why not shackle him!” - “Look, make it stronger; if the chain holds, I pay a hundred rubles; if it breaks, your work is lost!” The blacksmith forged an iron chain, Zamoryshek wrapped it around himself, pulled it - and it broke. The blacksmith made it twice as strong; Well, that one was good. Zamoryshek took this chain, paid a hundred rubles and went to guard the hay; sat down under a haystack and waited.

Just at midnight the weather rose, the bark shook, and a wonderful mare emerged from the depths of the sea, ran up to the first stack and began to devour the hay. Zamoryshek jumped up, wrapped an iron chain around her and sat on horseback. His mare began to moo, through the valleys, over the mountains; no, I can’t knock down a rider! She stopped and said to him: “Well, good fellow, when you managed to sit on me, then take it and own my foals.” The mare ran up to the blue sea and neighed loudly; here the blue sea shook, and forty-one stallions came ashore; horse horse is better! Go all over the world, you won’t find these anywhere! In the morning the old man hears neighing and stomping in the yard; what's happened? and it was his son Zamoryshek who drove a whole herd. “Great,” he says, “brothers! Now we all have a horse, let’s go look for brides for ourselves.” - "Let's go!" “Father and mother blessed them, and the brothers set off on a long journey.

They traveled around the world for a long time, but where can they find so many brides? I don’t want to get married separately so that no one will be offended; and what mother would boast that she had just forty-one daughters? The fellows have come to distant lands; They look: there are white stone chambers on a steep mountain, surrounded by a high wall, and iron pillars placed at the gates. They counted - forty-one pillars. So they tied their heroic horses to those pillars and went to the yard. Baba Yaga meets them: “Oh, you uninvited ones! How dare you tie up horses without asking?” - “Well, old woman, why are you shouting? First, give me something to drink, feed me, take me to the bathhouse, and then see me out and ask.” Baba Yaga fed them, gave them something to drink, took them to the bathhouse and began to ask: “What, good fellows, are you torturing things or are you getting away with it?” - “We’re torturing things, grandma!” - “What do you want?” - “Yes, we are looking for brides.” “I have daughters,” says Baba Yaga, she rushed into the high tower and brought out forty-one girls.

Then they got married, started drinking, partying, and celebrating weddings. In the evening Zamoryshek went to look at his horse. A good horse saw him and said in a human voice: “Look, master! When you go to bed with young wives, dress them in your dresses, and put on your wives; otherwise we will all be lost!” Zamoryshek told this to the brothers; They dressed the young wives in their dresses, and they themselves dressed in their wives’ clothes and went to bed. Everyone fell asleep, only Zamoryshek couldn’t close his eyes. At midnight, Baba Yaga shouted in a loud voice: “Hey you, my faithful servants! Cut off the heads of the uninvited guests.” Faithful servants came running and cut off the violent heads of the daughters of Baba Yaga. Zamoryshek woke up his brothers and told everything that had happened; They took the severed heads, stuck them on iron spokes around the walls, then saddled their horses and rode off quickly.

In the morning, Baba Yaga got up and looked out the window - all around the walls were her daughters’ heads sticking out on the knitting needles; She became terribly angry, ordered her fiery shield to be brought, galloped in pursuit and began to fire with her shield in all four directions. Where can the good guys hide? Ahead is the blue sea, behind is Baba Yaga - it burns and scorches! Everyone should have died, but Zamoryshek was smart: he didn’t forget to grab a handkerchief from Baba Yaga, waved that handkerchief in front of him - and suddenly a bridge spanned the entire blue sea; good fellows moved to the other side. Zamoryshek waved his handkerchief in the other direction - the bridge disappeared, Baba Yaga returned back, and the brothers went home. That's

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Once upon a time there lived a husband and wife, and they had a daughter. The wife fell ill and died. The man grieved and grieved and married someone else.

The evil woman disliked the girl, beat her, scolded her, and only thought about how to completely destroy her. One day the father left somewhere, and the stepmother said to the girl:

Go to my sister, your aunt, ask her for a needle and thread - to sew you a shirt.

And this aunt was Baba Yaga, the bone leg. The girl didn’t dare refuse, she went and first went to see her own aunt.

Hello, auntie!

Hello, darling! Why did you come?

My stepmother sent me to her sister to ask for a needle and thread - she wants to sew me a shirt.

It’s good, niece, that you came to see me first,” says the aunt. - Here's a ribbon, butter, some bread and a piece of meat. If a birch tree hits you in the eye, tie it with a ribbon; the gates will creak and slam, holding you back - you pour oil under their heels; the dogs will tear you up - throw them some bread; If the cat tears your eyes out, give him some meat.

The girl thanked her aunt and left. She walked and walked and came to the forest. There is a hut in the forest behind a high tine on chicken legs, on ram horns, and in the hut sits a Baba Yaga, with a bone leg weaving canvas.

Hello, auntie!

Hello, niece! - says Baba Yaga. - What do you need?

My stepmother sent me to ask you for a needle and thread to sew me a shirt.

Okay, niece, I’ll give you a needle and a thread, and you sit down while you work!

So the girl sat down by the window and began to weave. And Baba Yaga came out of the hut and said to her worker:

I’ll go to bed now, and you go, heat the bathhouse and wash your niece. Look, wash it thoroughly: when I wake up, I’ll eat it!

The girl heard these words - she sits neither alive nor dead. As Baba Yaga left, she began to ask the worker:

My dear, you don’t so much set fire to the wood in the stove as fill it with water, and carry the water in a sieve! - And I gave her a handkerchief.

The worker was heating the bathhouse, and Baba Yaga woke up, went to the window and asked:

Are you weaving, niece, are you weaving, dear?

Weave, auntie, weave, dear!

Baba Yaga went to bed again, and the girl gave the cat some meat and asked:

Brother cat, teach me how to escape from here.

Cat says:

There is a towel and a comb on the table, take them and run quickly: otherwise Baba Yaga will eat you! Baba Yaga will chase you - put your ear to the ground. When you hear that she is close, throw a comb and a dense, dense forest will grow. While she is making her way through the forest, you will run far away. And if you hear the chase again, throw in the towel: a wide and deep river will overflow.

Thank you, brother cat! - says the girl.

She thanked the cat, took a towel and comb and ran.

The dogs rushed at her, wanted to tear her, bite her, - she gave them bread. The dogs missed her. The gate creaked and wanted to slam shut - and the girl poured oil under their heels. They missed it.

The birch tree made a noise and wanted to quilt its eyes, but the girl tied it up with a ribbon. The birch tree let her through. The girl ran out and ran as fast as she could. He runs and doesn't look back.

Meanwhile, the cat sat down by the window and began to weave. It doesn't so much weave as it confuses!

Baba Yaga woke up and asked:

Are you weaving, niece, are you weaving, dear?

And the cat answered her:

Weave, auntie, weave, dear.

Baba Yaga rushed into the hut and saw that the girl was gone, and the cat was sitting, weaving.

Baba Yaga began to beat and scold the cat:

Oh, you old rogue! Oh, you villain! Why did you let the girl out? Why didn't he rip her eyes out? Why didn't you scratch your face?..

And the cat answered her:

I’ve been serving you for so many years, you didn’t throw me a gnawed bone, but she gave me the meat!

Baba Yaga ran out of the hut and attacked the dogs:

Why didn’t they tear the girl, why didn’t they bite her?..

The dogs tell her:

We have been serving you for so many years, you didn’t throw us a burnt crust, but she gave us some bread!

Baba Yaga ran to the gate:

Why didn't they creak, why didn't they clap? Why was the girl released from the yard?..

Gate says:

We have been serving you for so many years, you didn’t even pour water under our heels, but she didn’t spare us the butter!

Baba Yaga jumped up to the birch tree:

Why didn't she quilt the girl's eyes?

Birch answers her:

I’ve been serving you for so many years, you didn’t tie a thread around me, but she gave me a ribbon!

Baba Yaga began to scold the worker:

Why didn’t you, so-and-so, wake me up and call me? Why did you let her out?..

The worker says:

I’ve been serving you for so many years - I’ve never heard a kind word from you, but she gave me a handkerchief and spoke kindly and kindly to me!

Baba Yaga screamed, made some noise, then sat down in the mortar and rushed off in pursuit. He chases with a pestle, covers the trail with a broom...

And the girl ran and ran, stopped, put her ear to the ground and heard: the earth was trembling, shaking - Baba Yaga was chasing, and very close...

The girl took out a comb and threw it over her right shoulder. A forest has grown here, dense and tall: the roots of the trees go three fathoms underground, the tops are supported by clouds.

Baba Yaga rushed in and began to gnaw and destroy the forest. She gnaws and breaks, and the girl runs on. How much time has passed, the girl put her ear to the ground and hears: the earth is trembling, shaking - Baba Yaga is chasing, and very close.

The girl took the towel and threw it over her right shoulder. At that same moment the river overflowed - wide, very wide, deep, very deep!

Baba Yaga jumped up to the river and gnashed her teeth with anger - she couldn’t get across the river. She returned home, gathered her bulls and drove them to the river:

Drink, my bulls! Drink the whole river to the bottom!

The bulls began to drink, but the water in the river did not decrease. Baba Yaga got angry, lay down on the shore, and began to drink water herself. She drank, drank, drank, drank, until she burst.

Meanwhile, the girl just keeps running and running. In the evening the father returned home and asked his wife:

Where is my daughter?

Baba says:

She went to her aunt to ask for a needle and thread, but for some reason she was delayed.

The father became worried, he wanted to go look for his daughter, but the daughter ran home, out of breath, and couldn’t catch her breath.

Where have you been, daughter? - asks the father.

Ah, father! - the girl answers. - My stepmother sent me to her sister, and her sister is Baba Yaga, the bone leg. She wanted to eat me. I ran away from her by force!

When the father found out all this, he became angry with the evil woman and drove her out of the house with a dirty broom. And he began to live together with his daughter, amicably and well.

This is where the fairy tale ends.

First fairy tale Once upon a time there lived a husband and wife and adopted a daughter; your wife will die. The man married someone else and had a daughter with her. So the wife didn’t like her stepdaughter; there is no life for an orphan. Our man thought and thought and took his daughter to the forest. Driving through the forest, he looks: there is a hut on chicken legs. So the man says: “Hut, hut! Stand with your back to the forest and your front to me.” The hut turned around.

A man goes to a hut, and in it is a Baba Yaga: in front is a head, in one place is a leg, in the other is another. “It smells like the Russian spirit!” - says the yaga. The man bows: “Baba Yaga is a bone leg!” I brought your daughter to serve you.” - "OK then! Serve, serve me,” the yaga says to the girl, “I will reward you for this.”

The father said goodbye and went home. And Baba Yaga gave the girl a box of yarn, to light the stove, and to store everything, and she left. Here is a girl busy at the stove, and she is crying bitterly. The mice ran out and said to her: “Maiden, maiden, why are you crying? Give me some porridge; We’ll tell you kindly.” She gave them porridge. “But,” they say, “you need to tie a thread on every spindle.” Baba Yaga came: “Well,” she said, “have you got everything?” And the girl is all ready. “Well, now go and wash me in the bathhouse.” The yaga praised the girl and gave her various blows. Again the yaga left and set the task even more difficult. The girl is crying again. The mice run out: “What are you, they say, red maiden, crying? Give me some porridge; We’ll tell you kindly.” She gave them porridge, and they again taught her what to do and how to do it. Baba Yaga came again, praised her and gave her even more punishment... And the stepmother sends her husband to see if his daughter is alive?

The man went; comes and sees that the daughter has become rich, very rich. Yaga was not at home, so he took her with him. They drive up to their village, and at home the dog is screaming: “Bad, boor, boor! They’re bringing the lady, they’re bringing the lady!” The stepmother ran out and rolled the dog with a rolling pin. “You’re lying,” he says, “tell me: the bones are rattling in the box!” And the dog has everything. We've arrived. The stepmother is pushing her husband to take her daughter there too. The man took it.

So Baba Yaga gave her work, and she left. The girl is bursting with frustration and crying. Mice run out. “Maiden, maiden! What are you crying about, they say?” But she didn’t let them speak out, first with a rolling pin, then with another; I fussed with them, but didn’t get anything done. Yaga came and got angry. Another time the same thing again; The yaga broke it and put the bones in a box. So the mother sends her husband for her daughter. My father arrived and brought some bones. He drives up to the village, and the dog barks on the porch again: “Bad, boor, boor! They bring the bones in a box!” The stepmother runs with a rolling pin: “You’re lying,” he says, “say: they’re taking the lady!” And the dog is all his own: “Bad, boor, boor! The bones are rattling in the box!” My husband arrived; Then the wife howled! Here's a fairy tale for you, and a glass of butter for me.

There lived a grandfather and a woman; Grandfather became a widower and married another wife, and he still had a girl from his first wife. The evil stepmother did not like her, beat her and thought about how to completely destroy her. Once the father has left somewhere, the stepmother says to the girl: “Go to your aunt, my sister, ask her for a needle and thread and sew you a shirt.” And this aunt was Baba Yaga bone leg.

The girl wasn’t stupid, but she went to see her own aunt first. “Hello, auntie!” - “Hello, darling! Why did you come?” - “Mother sent to her sister to ask for a needle and thread to sew a shirt for me.” She teaches her: “There, niece, a birch tree will whip you in the eyes - you tie it with a ribbon; there the gates will creak and slam for you - you pour oil under their heels; there the dogs will tear you apart - you throw them some bread; there the cat will scratch your eyes - give him some ham.” The girl went; here she comes, she comes, and she has come.

There is a hut, and Baba Yaga sits in it with a bone leg and weaves. “Hello, auntie!” - “Hello, darling!” - “My mother sent me to ask you for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for me.” - "Fine; sit down while we weave.” So the girl sat down at the crown, and Baba Yaga came out and spoke to her worker. “Go, heat the bathhouse and wash your niece, and look carefully; I want to have breakfast with it.” The girl sits neither alive nor dead, all frightened, and she asks the worker: “My dear! You don’t so much set fire to the wood as fill it with water, carry the water with a sieve,” and gave her a handkerchief.

Baba Yaga is waiting; She went up to the window and asked: “Are you weaving, niece, are you weaving, dear?” - “Weave, auntie, weave, dear!” Baba Yaga walked away, and the girl gave the cat some ham and asked: “Is it possible to somehow get away from here?” “Here’s a comb and a towel for you,” says the cat, “take them and run away; Baba Yaga will chase you, put your ear to the ground and when you hear that she is close, first throw in a towel - it will happen wide wide river; If Baba Yaga crosses the river and begins to catch up with you, you will again bend your ear to the ground and when you hear that she is close, throw a comb - it will become a dense, dense forest; She won’t get through it anymore!”

The girl took a towel and a comb and ran; the dogs wanted to tear her apart - she threw them some bread, and they let her through; the gate wanted to slam shut - she poured butter under their heels, and they let her through; The birch tree wanted to quilt her eyes - she tied it with a ribbon, and she let her through. And the cat sat down at the weaving and weaved: he didn’t so much weave as mess up. Baba Yaga went to the window and asked: “Are you weaving, niece, are you weaving, dear?” - “Weave, auntie, weave, dear!” - the cat answers rudely.

Baba Yaga rushed into the hut, saw that the girl had left, and let’s beat the cat and scold him, why didn’t he scratch out the girl’s eyes? “I serve you for as long as I can,” says the cat, “you didn’t give me a bone, but she gave me a ham.” Baba Yaga attacked the dogs, the gate, the birch tree and the worker, let’s scold and beat everyone. The dogs tell her: “We serve you for as long as we can, you didn’t throw us a burnt crust, but she gave us some bread.” The gate says: “We’ve been serving you for as long as we’ve served you, you didn’t pour water under our heels, but she poured oil on us.” Birch says: “As long as I’ve served you, you haven’t tied me up with a thread, but she tied me up with a ribbon.” The worker says: “I’ve been serving you for as long as I’ve been serving you, you didn’t give me a rag, but she gave me a handkerchief.”

Baba Yaga's bone leg quickly sat down on the mortar, pushed with a pusher, covered the trail with a broom, and set off in pursuit of the girl. So the girl bent her ear to the ground and heard that Baba Yaga was chasing, and she was already close, she took and threw in the towel: the river became so wide, wide! Baba Yaga came to the river and gnashed her teeth in anger; she returned home, took her oxen and drove them to the river; the bulls drank the whole river clean. Baba Yaga set off in pursuit again. The girl bent her ear to the ground and heard that Baba Yaga was close, threw her comb: the forest had become so dense and scary! Baba Yaga began to gnaw at it, but no matter how hard she tried, she could not gnaw through it and turned back.

And the grandfather has already arrived home and asks: “Where is my daughter?” “She went to her aunt,” says the stepmother. A little later the girl came running home. "Where have you been?" - asks the father. “Oh, father! - she says. “So and so - my mother sent me to my aunt to ask for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for me, and my aunt, Baba Yaga, wanted to eat me.” - “How did you leave, daughter?” So and so, says the girl. When the grandfather found out all this, he became angry with his wife and shot her; and he and his daughter began to live and live and make good things, and I was there, drinking honey and beer: it flowed down my mustache, but didn’t get into my mouth.

In a fairy-tale world there is a large number of colorful and very recognizable characters. For example, one of the most ancient characters. Tales with Baba Yaga belong to folklore, where the heroine herself acts as an evil spirit. In them she does both dirty tricks and good deeds. In this article we will look at various fairy tales with Baba Yaga (we will list the names of the most famous ones) and talk about the character himself.

Fairy-tale character Baba Yaga

Let's take a closer look at what kind of character this is, Baba Yaga. IN Slavic mythology This is an old woman who knows how to cast magic, do dirty tricks and very rarely do good. Baba Yaga lives in a dark forest, in a hut on chicken legs. There will definitely be a high fence around the hut, on which you can find human bones and skulls. Baba Yaga also flies in a mortar, helping herself with a broom.

Fairy tales with Baba Yaga show this character from three sides:

• the one who can present a gift to a good fellow (a fairytale horse or the necessary magic item);
• the one who kidnaps children and roasts them in her oven;
• the one they go to fight with.

Those experts who figured out where this image came from put forward several different hypotheses. Some believed that Baba Yaga represented a deceased ancestor. Others suggested that this image came into the fairy tale from a way of life when the head of the clan had the right to teach, as a strong head of the clan and a knowledgeable person.

In any case, Baba Yaga represents a powerful and wise older woman, which can either help a traveler on the road or become a big challenge that needs to be solved. Below we will look at the most famous fairy tales with this character.

Tales about Baba Yaga, in which she does bad things

There are a number of fairy tales in which Baba Yaga does bad things (kidnaps children, holds a beautiful maiden captive, etc.). Such Russian fairy tales with Baba Yaga are usually read to very young children. In them it represents a factor of edification. It is after such tales that parents teach their children. Let's look at some of them.

• "Baba Yaga bone leg." This fairy tale tells about an obedient daughter who, at the behest of her stepmother, goes to the forest to Baba Yaga. On her way, she overcomes various obstacles to get out of evil captivity. The fairy tale talks about obedience and kindness.
• "Baba Yaga and Zamoryshek" This fairy tale tells about siblings, one of whom was the smartest. Fate brought them to Baba Yaga, and thanks to their ingenuity and resourcefulness, the brothers were able to get rid of trouble.
• "Swan geese". In this fairy tale, Baba Yaga is a negative character who orders her geese to steal children.
• "Marya Morevna" A strong warrior, Marya, holds him captive, and after some time, Tsarevich Ivan unknowingly releases him. To save his beloved, he needed Baba Yaga's horse.

Fairy tales in which Baba Yaga helps a young man or girl

There are also fairy tales in which Baba Yaga appears as a wise and lonely woman who gives instructions to a lost young man. At the same time, she can give him a magic object, which will then lead him where he needs to go or help him in difficult times. Consider these tales with Baba Yaga:

• "Vasilisa the Beautiful" This is a Russian folk tale that tells the story of a poor girl forced to follow the orders of her stepmother. When her stepmother's daughter sent her to Baba Yaga for fire, she went. Having fulfilled all the old woman’s orders, Vasilisa received what she came for.
• "Feather of Finist Yasna Falcon." In this fairy tale, the character of Baba Yaga is shown from the good side. The main character is an enchanted young man, whom his beloved goes to save. On her way, she meets three Grannies Hedgehogs, who give her one magic item each. With their help, she frees her beloved Finist.
• “Go there, I don’t know where, bring something, I don’t know what.” An amazing and magical story, where Baba Yaga appears in a completely different image - a kind assistant to a young man on his way.

Folk tales about Baba Yaga

You can also find fairy tales with Baba Yaga among other peoples, only there they call her a little differently. For example, in Serbian folklore she is called Baba Roga, in Montenegro - Baba Ruga. Let's look at the fairy tales in which she appears.

• "Pilipka-son." This Belarusian fairy tale about a very smart boy who confronts Baba Yaga and her daughter.
• (Ukrainian fairy tale).
• "Khortki" (Belarusian fairy tale).

As we see, folk tales with Baba Yaga are very common all over the world. Some fairy tales are very similar to each other, the obligatory difference is the name of Baba Yaga, as well as some details of the plot. In addition, this image is not only a horror story for children, but also shows some aspects from the life of our ancestors.

Baba Yaga in cinema and animation

This character can also be found in movies and cartoons. They are, of course, based on Russian folk tales with Baba Yaga. Some of the most famous ones will be listed below. So, fairy tales with Baba Yaga (titles):

• "Morozko" (cinema);
• (movie);
• "Vasilisa the Beautiful" (film);
• "New Year's Adventures of Masha and Viti" (cinema);
• "Geese-swans" (cartoon);
• "The Frog Princess" (cartoon);
• "Vasilisa the Beautiful" (cartoon);
• "Flying Ship" (cartoon);
• "The Adventures of a Brownie" (cartoon).

Of course, this is not the entire list of cartoons and films whose plots are based on fairy tales or the very image of Baba Yaga. It is so colorful that it occurs very often.

Conclusion

So, we looked at fairy tales with the participation of Baba Yaga. As you can see, they are quite diverse. When reading these fairy tales to children, you should explain what kind of image this is and what its instructiveness is. You can even talk about versions of its origin. Your child might like it.

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