Baba Yaga is where it’s at. All fence of human bones, skulls on the fenceposts, magic riddle required to get in. All eating kidnapped children and flying around in a big grinding bowl.
Plus she could eat all the other contenders. I think that pretty much decides it.
Coincidentally she could also eat lolcats, bacon, pirates, ninja, monkeys, and Rick Astley.
I am the fourth person who has a strange obsession with Baba Yaga! She lives in a hut on fowl’s legs and travels through the sky in a mortar (herb grinding bowl), paddling with a pestle(herb grinding stick-thing). What’s not to love? Besides the eating people thing…
I started reading Cat and Girl because I saw the Baba Yaga shirt on TopatoCo. Baba Yaga is my favorite fairytale villain.
Baba Yaga has no regrets, just her nose in the ceiling and legs spread out to the corners of the house. Her daughter is a bit of a dolt, but she loves the little imp anyway.
Little house, turn around so your back is to the woods, and your door to me!
They never learn. They always invite themselves in to the funny hut to get eaten.
Man, Russian fairytales are brutal.
[...] I know for a fact I’m not the first person advocating such a move. Here’s Dorothy Gambrell’s claim, and here’s David Malki !’s. I hope, though, that you’ll hear me out. I [...]
Little Lord Fauntleroy had his hair in ringlets! That’s the whole point of the story – the author made it up to tell her children while she curled their hair. There’s a whole genre of tales invented for that very purpose.
February 9th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Baba Yaga is where it’s at. All fence of human bones, skulls on the fenceposts, magic riddle required to get in. All eating kidnapped children and flying around in a big grinding bowl.
Plus she could eat all the other contenders. I think that pretty much decides it.
Coincidentally she could also eat lolcats, bacon, pirates, ninja, monkeys, and Rick Astley.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Mmm, Baba Yaga. What I would give for a house built on giant chicken drumstick stilts.
April 7th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
The Little nyet comic deals Heavily with Baba yaga.
Have A nice eternity.
April 21st, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I am the fourth person who has a strange obsession with Baba Yaga! She lives in a hut on fowl’s legs and travels through the sky in a mortar (herb grinding bowl), paddling with a pestle(herb grinding stick-thing). What’s not to love? Besides the eating people thing…
May 27th, 2009 at 1:41 am
I started reading Cat and Girl because I saw the Baba Yaga shirt on TopatoCo. Baba Yaga is my favorite fairytale villain.
Baba Yaga has no regrets, just her nose in the ceiling and legs spread out to the corners of the house. Her daughter is a bit of a dolt, but she loves the little imp anyway.
Little house, turn around so your back is to the woods, and your door to me!
They never learn. They always invite themselves in to the funny hut to get eaten.
Man, Russian fairytales are brutal.
June 5th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I know. I have a book of them. In one, a boy turns into a goat (or similar animal) and his sister drowns.
June 12th, 2009 at 10:10 am
[...] I know for a fact I’m not the first person advocating such a move. Here’s Dorothy Gambrell’s claim, and here’s David Malki !’s. I hope, though, that you’ll hear me out. I [...]
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:51 pm
did this comic come before the thing with miss south carolina? if it did madame you are at least one-sixth meme prescient.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
I am also a big fan of the legend of Baba Yaga. But I wouldn’t like to see her turned into an internet meme. Lets keep her to ourselves!
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Oh, and I’m not entirely sure she could eat ninjas.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
You are totally on to something with the Baba Yaga meme. My favourite story is the one with the girl and her magic doll.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Little Lord Fauntleroy had his hair in ringlets! That’s the whole point of the story – the author made it up to tell her children while she curled their hair. There’s a whole genre of tales invented for that very purpose.
January 11th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Yay basques!