216-Baba Yaga: Which Witch?
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
4.8 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Two stories from Russia. On the first, we catch up with the famous witch, Baba Yaga, as we follow yet another young person who has been sent on an errand/to be eaten at the evil witch's walking hut. The second one is about a dragon slayer, Dobrynya, as he makes a wrong turn down in the city and keeps falling in love with a woman who wants nothing at all to do with him.
The creature is a tiny little old man with long hair who cries like a baby! And eats people!
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Myths and Legends, there are two stories from Russia. |
| 0:04.0 | On the first, we'll see that if your errands involve you stopping by the famous witch-bobby |
| 0:08.0 | a gauze hut, someone might have it out for you. |
| 0:10.9 | And on the second, we'll see that if a person keeps making you forget they exist, that |
| 0:15.5 | might be a hint that they're not into. |
| 0:18.2 | The creatures this time are creepy little old man babies who live in the water and just |
| 0:24.1 | want to have a talk. |
| 0:30.9 | This is Myths and Legends, episode 216, Witch Witch. |
| 0:40.4 | This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore. |
| 0:43.8 | Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins. |
| 0:48.8 | Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth listening. |
| 0:52.4 | But today, we have two stories from Russia. |
| 0:54.9 | The first has to do with the famous witch, Baba Yaga. |
| 0:58.7 | And what happens when her sister gets married. |
| 1:01.4 | In the second, we follow a famous night, fresh off of his killing of a dragon and getting |
| 1:06.4 | married, and not at all on the way to accidentally falling in love with a witch. |
| 1:22.8 | I feel like you might be trying to kill me. |
| 1:27.1 | Natasha said to her stepmother, the woman shook her head. |
| 1:30.3 | What gave Natasha that idea? |
| 1:32.4 | Natasha said that just spitballing here. |
| 1:35.8 | She wanted Natasha to go out and see her sister in the dark forest. |
| 1:39.6 | To get a needle in thread, literally the minute her father left. |
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