While you could classify Baba Yaga as a boogeyman of sorts, she isn't the Boogeyman that lives under your bed and frightens you if you don't sleep. That's a Babayka, or Babay.

Baba Yaga is surprised that someone can do the tasks and do them well. Satisfied that the girl has fulfilled her side of the bargain, she sends the girl home with one of the skulls with blazing eyes.

A new novel reimagines Baba Yaga — a crone figure in Slavic folklore — as a Jewish woman living in an Eastern European town during a time of pogroms.

Also known as Baba Yaga Boney Legs, this figure appears in stories as an iron-toothed witch with a skeletal frame (despite her massive appetite). However, she does not have the stereotypical ...

Ghost isn’t especially similar to Baba Yaga in “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” at least on the surface. The witch flies around in a mortar and pestle, for starters, she’s spooky looking and ...