Baba+Yaga

__**Baba Yaga // byIvan Bilibin //**__ [|About Ivan Bilibin]

__**Baba Yaga Summa[|ry]**__  Natasha’s father became a widower. He later married again, but what he didn’t know was that she was cruel and beat Natasha. One day the cruel step-mother told Natasha to go to her sister, the witch, Baba Yaga to get a needle and thread. Natasha knew that she was sent there to get eaten not to get a needle or thread, but she was terrified to deny her step mother so she went. When she arrived the gate creaked and there was an oil can so she oiled the gate. The gate said thank you and opened the gate without creaking. There was a very hungry dog and Natasha had some fresh loaves and so gave it to the dog. The dog said thank you and didn’t rip her to shreds. There was also a maid and she was crying outside so Natasha gave her a kerchief. When she went inside she greeted her aunt and told her to go sew. There was a cat right next to her and so she gave the cat a bone for it’s teeth. The cat said thank you and then began to tell her something. The cat asked if she would like to get away from her evil aunt and she said yes. So the cat gave her a comb and a towel. The cat said run out of the hut and if you hear her coming through the towel and it will make a wide river then through the comb and it will make a huge forest and she wouldn’t be able to get by. So she took the come and the towel and left. The cat covered for her but Baba Yaga found out that she was gone and went after her. While Natasha was running the dog let her by because she gave it food and the gates opened to her because she gave it oil. She was running and Baba Yaga was right behind her so she remembered the towel and it turned into a wide river. But she got through it. Then Natasha through the come behind her and it turned into a huge forest and baba Yaga couldn’t get through so she gave up. When Natasha returned to her house she told her father everything and then kicked Natasha’s step mother out of the house for good. And they both lived happily ever after. [|Baba Yaga's hut] Russian Culture

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