Baba Yaga laid an egg

Baba Jaga je snijela jaje

Baba Yaga is a witch, but does not belong to a group of witches; she can be both good and evil; she is a mother and the murderer of her daughter; she is a woman, but she does not have and has never had a husband; she lends a helping hand and also plots conspiracies; she is expelled from human society and also communicates with humans; she is a warrior, but also does housework; she is "dead" and also a living person; she can fly, but is also bound to the ground; she is just a "chance character", but also a key stop on the protagonist's journey to happiness: the "polite" and "rude" protagonists stop in front of her hut, they eat and drink their fill, take a comfortable bath, listen to her advice, take away the magical gifts she gives, and then disappear without a trace.
Translated into more modern terms, she is a dissident, an exile, a loser, a recluse, a spinster, and an ugly creature. Her image, reliant on oral tradition, is a collective creation and a collective mirror. Her life story began in better times, when she was Golden Baba, the Earth Mother. Later, she became an exiled scarecrow, yet she still rules through cunning. Now, she languishes in her little room, like an embryo in a womb or a corpse in a coffin.
No one knocked on her door again with flowers and chocolates.

2024-06-01

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