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    Vasilisa was a beautiful girl but her stepmother and 3 evil step-sisters had different plans for her. Plans that sent her deep into the woods and into the house of the dark witch named Baba Yaga. A witch who liked snacking on wayward travelers, bringing people misfortune, and occasionally passing along a little misunderstood luck.
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  • @extrahistory
    @extrahistory  Год назад +311

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    • @islammehmeov2334
      @islammehmeov2334 Год назад +3

      Will you do a TURKIC Folklore stories please tanks 🙏

    • @aboubakrouladabdellah6611
      @aboubakrouladabdellah6611 Год назад +1

      Could you do a vidio or series about Muhammed the profit from the Islamic religion?

    • @brigittethienan
      @brigittethienan Год назад

      Also weiß ich nicht was du sagst wenn ich einfach Baujahr gab sein würde hey Bau mir ne zwei hier Baureihe von Dampfloks können sie auch mit einfachen Gasbrenner war ging mein

    • @zealouslyonpsychedelics
      @zealouslyonpsychedelics Год назад

      All hail

  • @moneysins
    @moneysins Год назад +1104

    “If you’re going into the woods… in search of a bride”
    That’s an interesting alternative to Tinder

    • @ThrasherDylan
      @ThrasherDylan Год назад +193

      Ironically people tend to go into the woods for tinder as well

    • @moneysins
      @moneysins Год назад +44

      @@ThrasherDylan Ayo

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  Год назад +131

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @floydblandston108
      @floydblandston108 Год назад

      The diff is that not *everyone* in the woods wants to show you their dick.

    • @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing
      @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing Год назад +21

      And this is why your phone has a Compass and 9-1-1 app

  • @yuvalgabay1023
    @yuvalgabay1023 Год назад +279

    western sinderela : witch gives here cool dresses and a limo to shame the step mother
    easter sinderela : witch : here take this. its a flamethrower

    • @crzylkfx
      @crzylkfx Год назад +32

      To be fair, the step mother and sisters got it pretty bad in the West too. They cut off parts of their feet to try to fit in the shoe, and birds come and peck out their eyes when she gets with the prince. I don’t think they die though. Just permanently mutilated

    • @andrewpotts
      @andrewpotts Год назад +23

      even further eastern (Vietnamese) Cinderella: Instead of living happily every after with my prince. I'm gonna kill my stepsister, make her into soup and feed her to my stepmother. When she sees the skull at the bottom of the bowl, she'll die of shock.

    • @matanbaranes3088
      @matanbaranes3088 4 месяца назад +1

      חחחחחחחח

    • @matanbaranes3088
      @matanbaranes3088 4 месяца назад

      רגע, אבל גבאי זה שם מזרחי (או טכנית תפקיד בבית הכנסת)

    • @yuvalgabay1023
      @yuvalgabay1023 4 месяца назад

      @@matanbaranes3088 מה הבעייה בזה

  • @ArkadiBolschek
    @ArkadiBolschek Год назад +549

    For some reason, my favourite part of this tale is when Vasilisa comes across three horsemen in the forest, and later Baba Yaga explains that they are the Sun, the Morning and the Night, and that all three are her servants.

    • @Bluecho4
      @Bluecho4 Год назад +29

      I've had a book from The Enchanted World (from Time-Life Books) on my shelf for years, that retells the tale. The full-color illustrations of the horsemen are breathtaking.

    • @lalieesc1717
      @lalieesc1717 Год назад +14

      I knew the tale from A Treasury of Fairy Tales book and its gorgeous illustrations

    • @eldritchcupcakes3195
      @eldritchcupcakes3195 7 месяцев назад +7

      Ohh yeah I remember that one

  • @deadlydingus1138
    @deadlydingus1138 Год назад +121

    Person: Why does your house have chicken legs?
    Baba Yaga: It’s my mobile home.

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +3

      It was! And it was canonically capable of movement.

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 месяцев назад +2

      One of the ways to defeat it was saying a limerick "hut on chicken legs, stay before me like leaf in front of grass", it makes just as little sense in context. Also, "turn to me with your front and to the forest backwards" and hero usually confused the two directions since russian heroes are always stupid. (Not exaggeration, Ivan Durak - the fool - is their go-to main character).

    • @KlaxontheImpailr
      @KlaxontheImpailr 2 месяца назад +1

      Slavic AT-ST

    • @Dread_Floppa_cat
      @Dread_Floppa_cat 24 дня назад +1

      Baba Yaga's hut can also have ram's legs

  • @mszalans4817
    @mszalans4817 Год назад +501

    Baba Jaga is not only in Russian tales, it'smore broad, slavic. And she doesn't only represent some mythical evil, she is more literal witch for children.
    There are sayings like: "Baba Jaga patrzy!" (Baba Yaga watches you) and others

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +34

      Yes.
      But also note that many of the tales emerged not in what we think of Russian Federation today, but in Rus (Русь) which encompassed modern day Ukraine, Belarus, European Russia and some territories around that including some of Poland

    • @TorturedMongoose2003
      @TorturedMongoose2003 Год назад +13

      That's why you don't call a priest... You call a Witcher...

    • @PreacherTHC
      @PreacherTHC Год назад +1

      I would love to go to a baba yaga party!!!!

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +4

      @@PreacherTHC I believe you would not.
      Because why would you be in such a party other than to be eaten?
      Actually, the idea that there can more than one somehow completely missed my mind the whole of my life but it does make sense - folk tales usually described one living in the middle of a forest, but nothing suggests it's the same exact forest, so there must be multiple of them. I wonder if they get along with each other - I'd imagine so.

    • @rocketslime4878
      @rocketslime4878 Год назад +1

      ​@JWhite the term kievan rus didn't even exist back then its a modern term we use to describe the allyship of slavic tribes that weren't ever one people's like the russians

  • @pantherace1000
    @pantherace1000 Год назад +160

    In a lot of folk tales Baba is in my interpretation a more chaotic neutral fairy godmother.
    She is more than willing to help the main character of the story, but she needs something in return and the motivation for the main character isn't just needing the help from Baba but also that Baba will punish them if the character tries to trick her or fails at the task she assigned.

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 месяцев назад

      She's literally beheading people and eating babies. Chaotic evil.

  • @PT5-Shorts
    @PT5-Shorts Год назад +2445

    This video wouldn't exist without my support, praise me

  • @Dreamfox-df6bg
    @Dreamfox-df6bg Год назад +88

    I'd say Baba Yaga knew exactly what would happen and this was her revenge.
    Consider, the stepmother had sent Baba Yaga a tasty meal she could not eat, because Vasilisa was 'blessed'. Baba Yaga, being what she was, migth have assumed this was intentional, teasing her.
    Sure, Vasilisa wasn't blessed in the way Baba Yaga thought, but going with the myths, the only way Baba Yaga could probably find out by eating Vasilisa with some unpleasant side effects.

  • @wild_lee_coyote
    @wild_lee_coyote Год назад +268

    There is only one person Baba Yaga fears, and that man is …. John Wick

    • @dangergames5113
      @dangergames5113 Год назад +2

      Mariah killed her in cooking companions john wick has not

    • @cobaltCarnivore
      @cobaltCarnivore Год назад +16

      Still super weirded out that John Wick is given a nickname implying he is an iron-toothed, unpredictable hag when Koschei the Deathless is right there

    • @youngsinatra5776
      @youngsinatra5776 Год назад +1

      I thought this is a story about John wick....😅😅😅😅

    • @maxhillen649
      @maxhillen649 Год назад

      @@cobaltCarnivore John wick is the one you send to kil the Baba Yaga

    • @mrreyes5004
      @mrreyes5004 Год назад +4

      @@cobaltCarnivore To be fair, I think that's because "Baba Yaga" is also considered a Russian/Slavic iteration of the Bogeyman in general. Because Baba Yaga is one out of MANY such Bogeyman equivalents around the world. Other such equivalents include El Cucuy of Latin America, Gurumapa of Nepal, Namahage of Japan, and Mètminwi of Haiti. Even the movie subtitles actually translate "Baba Yaga" as "Bogeyman".
      It basically means that John Wick ISN'T actually being fully equated to a chaotic hag, but just various localized versions of the Bogeyman in general. Which makes sense, because we know that John built up a reputation as a terrifying hitman across the world, just like how the Bogeyman is known by different names in many nations.

  • @Fordo007
    @Fordo007 Год назад +53

    To be fair… it’s Russia. The Tsar learning a woman can do all that work and also killed her oppressors while keeping her hands clean? That’s the kind of scheming and ruthlessness while keeping a saintly aura any Tsar would want in a Tsarina. He’s probably thinking what she can do at the next diplomatic dinner with the Swedes and Poles.

    • @Oxtocoatl13
      @Oxtocoatl13 Год назад +15

      "This woman tricked a demon into murdering her family and is using an unholy magic slave to run a successful business venture."
      "Be still my heart, have I finally found a girlfriend who shares my interests?"

    • @KateeAngel
      @KateeAngel 5 месяцев назад +2

      That is Real Politik 😂

  • @BrazenBard
    @BrazenBard Год назад +135

    Fun fact: In D&D 5th Edition, Baba Yaga's chicken-legs hut is a construct - a creature... with no particular defenses against spells like Otto's Irresistible Dance.
    ...If you choose to employ this tactic against her hut, and Baba Yaga is inside at the time, hope that she doesn't spot you running in the confusion...
    Y'know, as she'll surely be quite upset by having her home hopping around in place for a minute's time.

    • @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing
      @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing Год назад +8

      Classic. I wonder if she's in a support group with Drawmij the Mage.
      SPELL - Drawmij's Instant Death: When this spell is cast, Drawmij - where ever and who ever he is - dies instantly. He doesn't even get a saving throw. As this spell has been around for some time, it is fair to assume that Drawmij is getting pretty sick and tired of it.

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +5

      I have very vague memories of a soviet era kid's book / cartoon where the hut did just that - dance - but can't remember details well enough. If I'm not mistaken, a character used some (magical?) musical instrument to entice the hut to dance to somehow interfere with baba Yaga or something. I So in my book this is pretty spot on.
      Here is a clip of a parody, and NOT the one I'm talking about, but generally has the same idea:
      copy-paste into youtube search the following: Ну, погоди! Волк и Баба Яга

    • @Switcharoo12
      @Switcharoo12 Год назад +2

      First thing I remembered when I started watching this.

    • @kevinbarnard355
      @kevinbarnard355 Год назад +1

      Aren't most constructs immune to being charmed?

    • @PureStrengthLA
      @PureStrengthLA 3 месяца назад

      so that is what that leged house was

  • @SheilaTheGrate
    @SheilaTheGrate Год назад +18

    "Oh my goodness, what happened to your wicked stepmother and cruel stepsisters?"
    "Baba Yaga did it. I'm moving out. Bye Dad"

  • @brockmckelvey7327
    @brockmckelvey7327 Год назад +382

    Did Matt do all the voices for this story? If so, mad props!

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  Год назад +123

      He sure did!!

    • @fillemptytummy
      @fillemptytummy Год назад +21

      I heard Skeletor impersonation for the skull 💀 🔥🔥

    • @Zamtrios245
      @Zamtrios245 Год назад +10

      ​@fillemptytummy
      Wdym that's just how skeletons sound

  • @aninterestingtitle7581
    @aninterestingtitle7581 Год назад +114

    So happy to have extra mythology back. It’s my second favourite extra credits show, right after extra history

  • @midnightflare9879
    @midnightflare9879 Год назад +89

    When you realize you won't meet John Wick in the Russian woods.

    • @scottanos9981
      @scottanos9981 Год назад +7

      As long as you didn't end his puppy

    • @justmerc1642
      @justmerc1642 Год назад +4

      "I once saw her kill three women...with a skull on a stick."

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 месяцев назад

      You might when he bombs moscow with a drone.

    • @melvinthendra2254
      @melvinthendra2254 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@justmerc1642lol

  • @joerider485
    @joerider485 Год назад +291

    Baba yaga is very popular through out eastern Europe. Especially in Poland since everyone knows the story here
    Edit:
    There's also a game everyone played called
    Baba yaga looks ( english)
    Baba Jaga patrzy! (Polish)
    Its just the typical if he seen you move you loose

    • @Echo81Rumple83
      @Echo81Rumple83 Год назад +8

      i was fascinated with Baba Yaga since i was a kid; she was one of the minor antagonists in Sierra's Quest for Glory series (QfG1: So You Want to be a Hero and QfG4: Shadows of Darkness). when i took an elective in (now defunct Art Institute) on how to write stories for video games, i made what was essentially a "bible" (a book filled with information staff developers and animators need to refer to when developing/animating for a project) for a fictitious game about Baba Yaga. it was mainly focused on character art, props, and environmental designs. i think i might still have the prototype bible in my stash of regrettable college-related decisions.

    • @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing
      @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing Год назад +7

      I remember first reading about her as the strangest villain in the 1st Edition AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide, and then periodic re-appearances in the Monstrous Manual, and multiple franchise campaign settings like Greyhawk.
      They did a good job introducing obscure historical pantheons back then.

    • @shryggur
      @shryggur 6 месяцев назад +2

      Now I want a Big Brother Watches You poster with Baba Jaga that Pratzis You instead

  • @mtio8179
    @mtio8179 Год назад +48

    As a croatian I love to see more slavik mythology. I remember those stories from creature( like baba jaga or roga) from my childhood.

  • @-jeff-
    @-jeff- Год назад +31

    Baba Yaga was the villian in one of my favorite AD&D modules.

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +2

      Which one? Just curious.

  • @jag519
    @jag519 Год назад +18

    Russian cinderella doesn't need a fairy godmother to make her catch an eye of the prince, she'll just have a woods witch murder her family and marry the czar herself!
    Sounds cool.

  • @talithacumiferguson8834
    @talithacumiferguson8834 Год назад +44

    The Russian folktale Extra Mythology told is titled Vasilisa the Beauty. I'm actually busy writing my own original retelling of the folktale titled "Vasilisa the Gorgeous" where Vasilisa is actually the princess of a small Russian empire, and she has an evil czarina for a stepmother and not two but three evil princesses for stepsisters.

    • @PatchWorkExe
      @PatchWorkExe Год назад +2

      Neat idea.

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +5

      @@PatchWorkExe interesting!
      I suggest you maybe change the wording "small empire" to "principality" ("knyazhestvo" / "княжество") which were (semi-)autonomous feudal segments of Rus. In that case female ruler's title would be "knyaginya" / "княгиня".

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 месяцев назад

      At what point she kidnaps and "adopts" children whose parents soldiers of said empire killed? Cause that's the new schtick for russian elite. Slave kids kidnapped en masse.

  • @feathereddoggo7891
    @feathereddoggo7891 Год назад +41

    This is one of my favorite stories growing up. Wrote a final paper on her in college and I was so excited to see this go up I immediately shared it with my dnd group where she serves as my warlock/Paladin's patron. Loved this

  • @AbeIsCool2024
    @AbeIsCool2024 5 месяцев назад +4

    7:03 “Perhaps your skull on a stick could fill our eyes with light once more” famous last words

    • @RichardRatliff-hi2fk
      @RichardRatliff-hi2fk 2 месяца назад

      hey, it did what they wanted. just not exactly how they planned.

  • @kainingyao7873
    @kainingyao7873 Год назад +15

    Looks like Baba Yaga must be quite a geeky witch, since her house on chicken legs is an OG giant mech, and her pestle and mortar is like a boat and oar for flying in the sky.

  • @hiropyro
    @hiropyro Год назад +9

    A certain movie's subtitles told me that the Baba Yaga was some unstoppable being of focus, commitment and sheer will that avenged puppies. Thank for you lighting my Wick and illuminating me.

  • @deananimator1303
    @deananimator1303 Год назад +10

    I always hate wen I get a skull on a stick instead of a match.

    • @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing
      @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing Год назад +1

      Me: Hey lady, got a light?
      Her: SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! KILL, MAIM, BURN!
      Me: Oh, I see you're a Taurus. That's nice.

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Год назад +65

    Your mythology content is superb! Keep up the incredible work guys!

  • @Selrahcthewise
    @Selrahcthewise Год назад +18

    I've heard that Baba Yaga can also take the form of a dapper gentlemen,who takes out people with pencils from time to time

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +1

      This sounds completely wrong.
      The folk character who supposedly hides small household items is called "domovoy" ("домовой" - "one of the house", i.e. a house-sprite), they are typically depicted as a half-human half-beast, or as a person who died in the house, typically but not always male.

    • @shadowrunner2323
      @shadowrunner2323 Год назад +5

      No no, that's who you call to KILL Baba Yaga

    • @Pistachio_cream
      @Pistachio_cream Год назад +1

      ​@@jwhite5008Op was actually talking about John wick :)

  • @user-jk2uo1ic7g
    @user-jk2uo1ic7g Год назад +355

    Спасибо, что обратились к русскому фольклору! Успехов команде Экстра Хистори и роста аудитории канала!

    • @flavius5722
      @flavius5722 Год назад

      Probably Baba Yaga tell Putin he is ready to invade Uckraine

    • @Newidhan
      @Newidhan Год назад

      A tibe ne mishayit shto ani iyo Yaga zavut a ni Yega kak nuzhna?

    • @kdawg9477
      @kdawg9477 Год назад

      Bunch of terroruzzia

    • @nikokovacevic5504
      @nikokovacevic5504 Год назад +4

      Hey doesn't Russians say baba for grandma (because we Croats do)

    • @Alexander.Kravchenko
      @Alexander.Kravchenko Год назад +10

      @@nikokovacevic5504 Actually "baba" could be applied to any woman in Russian

  • @leflamewolf
    @leflamewolf Год назад +13

    This was some nice timing as recently I was in a D&D session that was all about fighting Baba Yaga. We defeated her and her house by removing all the water from the chicken legs and turning Baba Yaga's bones into metal, and using heat metal. Vasilisa defeated Baba Yaga with wits and we defeated her with insanity.

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +1

      Hah, classy!
      But don't you worry, she'll be back somehow and she will have you pay.. in a way you least expect!

  • @snapchatsnacks3154
    @snapchatsnacks3154 Год назад +35

    I think Baba Yaga would be great in modern stories inspired by the myth. Kind of like how Attack on Titan draws from mythology for its story.

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +4

      A lot of Slavic mythology inspired game Witcher.
      I haven't played it but probably at lease some form of baba Yaga made it there.

    • @snapchatsnacks3154
      @snapchatsnacks3154 Год назад

      A thing I thought of relating to this. In Slavic mythology there is this species of forest titans almost called Leshy. They have a lot in common with Baba Yaga such as an association with the woods, deals made with humans, eating humans, a skeletal/ wooded appearance. I think you could have a series built around Leshy and have Baba Yaga be some end game really powerful Leshy kind of like the founding titan in Attack on Titan

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад

      @@snapchatsnacks3154 I wouldn't describe Leshy as a titan but... ehh.. it's all up for interpretation.

    • @Ashebrethafe
      @Ashebrethafe Год назад

      @JWhite I watched the Netflix series, and I think Voleth Meir is the Polish version of Baba Yaga -- her power is called upon with the incantation, "Behold the Mother of the forest, the Deathless Mother nesting in dreams. Turn your back to the forest, hut, hut. Turn your front to me, hut, hut."

  • @VideosdeDomingo
    @VideosdeDomingo Год назад +10

    Baba yaga once killed three men in a bar with a pencil... with a f***ing pencil!

  • @Donttrustthatburger5144
    @Donttrustthatburger5144 Год назад +6

    I like the version where she meets the dawn, dusk, and dark and does the weaving herself to win the Zar's attention

  • @augustwolf_2256
    @augustwolf_2256 Год назад +7

    Yikes, that Flaming skull- face melting part was seriously metal.

  • @michaelramon2411
    @michaelramon2411 10 месяцев назад +4

    In the Pathfinder TTRPG, there is a published campaign called "Reign of Winter" that draws a lot from Russian mythology. In one of its books ("Rasputin Must Die!", the highlight of the campaign), you end up running around Baba Yaga's house, and you can find Vasilisa's doll! It literally calls itself "Vasilisa's doll"! After Vasilisa died, Baba Yaga claimed the doll and tormented it out of anger for letting Vasilisa get away. But if the PCs find it, rescue it from the flame-eyed skulls that surround it and give it some food, it will join them as a little servant to do chores and busywork for them.

  • @kchishol1970
    @kchishol1970 Год назад +29

    Great story. Would there be any chance you could do the Cthulhu Mythos, since Lovecraft's original writing is public domain?

  • @rafstary3706
    @rafstary3706 Год назад +9

    Thank you guys for doing an amazing job
    Extra mythology was one of my favorite series on yt and I am so glad it's back
    And thanks the patreons too
    I don't make money myself yet so I can't really be a patron but if someone reminds me about it in the future I sure will become one

  • @kevinkerkhoff6670
    @kevinkerkhoff6670 Год назад +10

    What a charming and wholesome story.

  • @fasology
    @fasology Год назад +72

    I love the baba Yaga tale thank you for covering some more Russian stuff❤

    • @LoSpotItaliano
      @LoSpotItaliano Год назад +7

      And Ukrainian too, which is far richer

    • @hotdogboxd
      @hotdogboxd Год назад +2

      @@LoSpotItalianoхохол

    • @slavic_viking9638
      @slavic_viking9638 Год назад +2

      @@LoSpotItaliano ok

    • @Orocnogu
      @Orocnogu Год назад +4

      @@LoSpotItaliano *sigh*

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +7

      @@LoSpotItaliano During the period depicted in many of those folk tales the country of Rus (Русь) contained both Ukraine, Belarus, and European part of Russia. The country of Ukraine is a fairly modern development, it only truly separated when USSR was dissolved two decades ago. Even the name "Ukraine" was not common in the historic period - or at least didn't correspond to what we think of it now ("Ukraine"/"Украина" is roughly translated as on-the-edge i.e. border lands, probably referencing it as a border of more modern Russian empire). So there is no reason in arguing this point simply because somehow trying to separate modern Ukraine from the rest of Rus at that point in time makes very little sense.

  • @JustGrowingUp84
    @JustGrowingUp84 Год назад +6

    I remember reading this as a child...
    Thank you for the hit of nostalgia!

  • @JunkPhuJP
    @JunkPhuJP Год назад +6

    "That f***ing nobody is John Wick. He once was an associate of ours. We call him 'Baba Yaga'."
    "The Bogeyman?"
    "Well John wasn't exactly The Bogeyman. He was the one you sent to kill the f***ing Bogeyman..."
    "Oh."
    Now it can't be a coincidence that they release this about two days before John Wick 4.

  • @AlexAre0
    @AlexAre0 Год назад +3

    Juan Thick 4 script looking crazy

  • @yugoslavball1945
    @yugoslavball1945 Год назад +24

    Thanks for inspiring my love for history! (Note: great animation!)

  • @cheezemonkeyeater
    @cheezemonkeyeater Год назад +20

    BY is my absolute favorite folkloric figure. I wrote like three essays on this character in my Folklore Studies degree.
    Hell, I incorporated her as an ogremage into my primary fantasy/D&D setting and at one point had a hook where she ran for mayor, exploiting a loophole of the local government that technically granted her citizenship. The other candidates paid the adventurers to find out what she wanted to get her to stop because they were afraid to run against her, but were even more afraid of what she'd do with legal power.

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +3

      Yaga was generally depicted as a hermit in Slavic folklore, but the mythos inspired you to create is totally fair game of course!

    • @cheezemonkeyeater
      @cheezemonkeyeater Год назад +2

      @@jwhite5008 That's normally how I play her, too; she normally just does her own thing and if you stay out of her way, there's not much trouble. But the idea of her running for mayor by exploiting a loophole just fit so well with the setting. She didn't even leave her hut to do it, she just sent a talking animal to announce that she was running and would be on the ballot and more or less conducted everything else by mail, but her being on the ballot is terrifying because what will she do if you vote against her? Or run against her?

  • @Keenath
    @Keenath Год назад +10

    Baba isn't her first name, it's the diminutive of grandmother -- so "Baba Yaga" means something like "Granny Yaga" (the etymology of Yaga is obscure, but might have originally just meant something like 'witch'). You should refer to her as "Yaga" if you're trying to be brief, not "Baba".

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 месяцев назад +5

      Baba is not diminutive, it's derogatory. Baba - hag, bitch, wench. It refers to all women regardless of age. Granny would be babusia in Ukrainian or babushka in russian, both these words actually have a dimunituve suffix. (Baba is just a root, words without suffixes are not dimunitive in Slavspeak). For example, Yagashechka would be dimunitive for Yaga. Or Rinusik for Rina.

  • @GeorgeEstregan828
    @GeorgeEstregan828 Год назад +1

    Focus, commitment and sheer will

  • @reenactormc8291
    @reenactormc8291 2 месяца назад

    I’m glad you have such a great community that supports you, because if they didn’t our history teacher wouldn’t be able to show your videos in our class

  • @akosibimagediaries3994
    @akosibimagediaries3994 Год назад +2

    Baba yaga is on theaters now : JOHN WICK chapter 4 😅

  • @cube8282
    @cube8282 Год назад +12

    Absolutely loved it ❤️
    Still I would love if you guys could make a video about The divine comedy

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  Год назад +5

      If we could make all the things we totally would!!! :)

  • @thegayghost872
    @thegayghost872 Год назад +9

    It’s like Cinderella, but terrifying!

    • @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing
      @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing Год назад +2

      You gotta admire Disney's ability to retcon Baba Yaga from cannibal witch to 'Fairy Godmother'

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +1

      @@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing Not the first one they did. I believe their "Beauty and the Beast" is at least partially based on a Russian folk tale "The crimson flower", which had... quite a bit of extra detail to it.

  • @raymartflores9537
    @raymartflores9537 Год назад +1

    "A monster of focus, commitment, and sheer will"

  • @jonahfalcon1970
    @jonahfalcon1970 Год назад +2

    7:05 DON'T LOOK, MARION! DON'T LOOK AT THE ARK, I MEAN, SKULL!

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +1

      too late, the skull looked at you anyway...

  • @mix-up9003
    @mix-up9003 Год назад +6

    Moral of the story: don't expect Baba Yaga to do the dirty job for you.

  • @CasualFox12495
    @CasualFox12495 Год назад +8

    Don't kill Baba Yaga's dog....

  • @taneelbrightblade6622
    @taneelbrightblade6622 Год назад +2

    As a kid, I absolutely loved the book "Weirdos of the Universe Unite," where Baba Yaga is one of the major characters, and is a huge fan of Star Trek

  • @laurapayne8963
    @laurapayne8963 Год назад +3

    Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter is a modern reimagining of this story, and Vassa (Vasilissa) has to visit Baba Yaga (BY's convenience store) to buy lightbulbs.

  • @jroden06
    @jroden06 Год назад +9

    Love this!! Fantastic video as always

  • @StefanT2001
    @StefanT2001 3 месяца назад +3

    Baba Yaga is a Slavic tale in general not only Russia, in the South Balkans its called Baba Roga.

  • @nikoladjuras
    @nikoladjuras Год назад +4

    Here in the Balkan, "Baba Jaga" is called "Baba Roga" and I am pretty sure that West Slavs also have some kind of "Baba Jaga", she probabley just has some other, but simmilar name.

    • @ElindorBG
      @ElindorBG Год назад +1

      Its баба Яга In Bulgaria

  • @MadamFoogie
    @MadamFoogie Год назад +1

    Awesome, I really missed these and Baba Yaga is such a cool myth.
    Friggin' hags, man. Sometimes I want to go live in a dark knotted forest somewhere, too. No responsibilities, just hoo hoo hee hee, hexes, mushrooms, moss, and mischief. I don't require a handsome prince, just think of all the cool feline familiars I could have! And who needs kids, you can snatch them up for dinner when their parents get tired of dealing with them! Seems pretty sweet.

  • @mine_crafting
    @mine_crafting Год назад +1

    That intro was fire god dam

  • @CapVel
    @CapVel Год назад +3

    Fun slavic fact! In some south slavic nations we Have Baba Roga, which is by some seen as baba yaga's sister, or baba yaga herself in a different horned devilish form, or a different person all together, as unlike baba yaga it's said baba Roga or Grandmother Horn, travels through villages and cities at night when the sun completely sets and the cold breeze of the silent cold streets and flickering lights of the balkans hits, any children alone not at home will be taken, what happens to them. Nobody ever knows. She horrifies the ever living hell out of serbian youth everywhere, thanks baba's for the childhood trauma.

    • @jin_cotl
      @jin_cotl Год назад

      Chef as in knifing someone, not cooking them 😂lol

  • @novo121
    @novo121 Год назад +7

    As slav this story was so scary when I was a kid. I didn't lived near forest but it made me feel unsafe
    P.S that witch eats kids in south slavic version so thats the reason for being scared

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 месяцев назад

      She eats kids in all versions.

  • @onuhrita5009
    @onuhrita5009 Год назад +2

    Surprisingly, I was just binge watching your channel when this new video popped up, new subscriber and I love the ' you haven't read ' series

  • @arurramoon1965
    @arurramoon1965 Год назад +2

    I have on off watched you guess for years, ever since middle school, you all practically raised me with this channel.... One day I'm gonna support you guys directly, I just need stable employment.

  • @tyjl3515
    @tyjl3515 Год назад +1

    I love Slavic folklore, it’s always so wild.

  • @lauramarianne1702
    @lauramarianne1702 3 месяца назад +1

    This tale is widely told in Poland too. Kids are always told to be scared of Baba Yaga when they're being naughty! 😃

  • @everythingiscool6228
    @everythingiscool6228 Год назад +6

    Ah so that’s what they send John wick to kill.

  • @bottasheimfe5750
    @bottasheimfe5750 Год назад +2

    what an interesting tale. I always love hearing stories from Slavic myths.

  • @felixheitzer2262
    @felixheitzer2262 Год назад +3

    Baba Yaga is really a phenomenon, thanks for the episode😊

  • @TheCreepypro
    @TheCreepypro 10 месяцев назад

    so glad to have mythology back because this was such a neat tale

  • @B00Radl33
    @B00Radl33 Год назад +2

    My favorite Baba Yaga story was the one where she had vast knowledge, but aged one year every time people asked her a question.
    So if you asked her a question she would eat you. Unless you brought her a Rare blue rose which she could make into tea to become Younger.
    Less evil, but still very anti social.
    When I lived in Ukraine I was told by several children that there were lots of Baba Yaga (Yagi?) in the woods. One even drew me a picture of one with a very long neck. It was just their word for witch. These were all kids under ten, so I'm not 100% sure how cultural it was but I feel it a story worth repeating.

  • @ellznaga2199
    @ellznaga2199 10 месяцев назад +1

    Well if this show is good enough for baba to support it’s good enough for me

  • @The-Random-Hamlet
    @The-Random-Hamlet Год назад +1

    Baba Yaga: I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.

  • @fireyjon
    @fireyjon Год назад +1

    Awesome content as always

  • @paulchapman8023
    @paulchapman8023 Год назад +3

    Quest for Glory has a pretty good take on Baba Yaga too. She shows up as the main antagonist of the first game, having cursed the land because the local baron insulted her. The protagonist's goal is to break the curse and drive her away, but first he has to get on her good side by offering her a snack. (And much like the story here, she'll be glad to eat the protagonist instead if he fails.)
    She shows up again in the fourth game, annoyed at the hero for having tricked her, but she is still willing to trade favors with him and otherwise live and let live... as long as the hero brings her a snack or two.
    One thing that is probably a liberty that Quest for Glory takes with the Baba Yaga story is that the aforementioned "snacks" are not at all appealing to a human: In the first game, she asks for a mandrake root (from which she plans to make a mousse), and in the fourth game she asks you to bake her a pie out of poisonous berries, human bones, and the equivalent of Cthulhu's saliva.

  • @bogdanerakovic6925
    @bogdanerakovic6925 Год назад +3

    I think Baba Yaga is in all Slavic folklore. I know there is a Baba Zaga in Serbia (baba roga).

  • @seanarcher1079
    @seanarcher1079 Год назад

    like how the campfire changed from before the story to after, nice touch

  • @paulavery1912
    @paulavery1912 11 месяцев назад +1

    This was the first time hearing this folktale. It was wonderful! 😮

  • @Echo81Rumple83
    @Echo81Rumple83 Год назад +2

    in other words: Baba Yaga is chaotic neutral.

    • @jwhite5008
      @jwhite5008 Год назад +1

      She was depicted anywhere from evil to helpful, not sure about "neutral" or "chaotic", she generally kept her promises -- in a way.

  • @webkeeper
    @webkeeper 6 месяцев назад

    Excellent video! I hope to see another one about Zmey Gorynych and his "immortality".

  • @Ghiaman1334
    @Ghiaman1334 Год назад +3

    Has anyone done a modern/current era Baba Yaga story? That image of her making the phone screen turn static-y is kinda inspiring ngl

    • @CelebrimborCurufinwe
      @CelebrimborCurufinwe Год назад

      There's a book called Vasa in the Night that's a modern day retelling! Its very odd/kinda dreamlike quality but a fun read still

  • @aloof_cardinal
    @aloof_cardinal Год назад +1

    6:21 Skeletor? Is that you?

  • @kratostv9366
    @kratostv9366 Год назад +4

    John wick has entered the chat

  • @_thekingsam
    @_thekingsam Год назад +2

    Anytime I see more extra mythology 🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @edoardoprevelato6577
    @edoardoprevelato6577 Год назад +2

    Me: reads the title. "Oh, a video about John Wick"

  • @victorialynnstruble
    @victorialynnstruble Год назад

    It's the enthusiasm with which he said the little screen for me

  • @Panda_Roll
    @Panda_Roll Год назад +1

    "I am devil adject"
    I'm not sure why but I love that line 🤣😂😄

  • @icarob-eng
    @icarob-eng Год назад +3

    The question is: what happened to the stick? Did he opened a match factory or something?

  • @Switcharoo12
    @Switcharoo12 Год назад

    I was first exposed to BY as a teen in the 80s playing AD&D.
    Thank you for the memory jump-start.

  • @xessenceofinsanityx
    @xessenceofinsanityx Год назад +2

    Thank you for that intro, now I've got 'Teddy Bears' Picnic stuck in my head 😂😂

  • @sleeplesssongbird7625
    @sleeplesssongbird7625 Год назад

    Thank you for this, I like listening to Cretian and Eastern European myths and stories as it helped me connect with my mother's ancestry! ❤️

  • @shivanshnautiyal1893
    @shivanshnautiyal1893 Год назад +4

    My grandfather has left me about 3 books of Russian folktales,that contain mostly stories about Baba yaha and her chicken-footed Hut 😂😂She also used to say to young people that "O Russian Blood,where are you from and where are you bound to?"Childhood memories,you know 🫠

  • @Serub
    @Serub 11 месяцев назад +1

    This video was excellent! I really hope that you will consider exploring other slavic folk tales and mythical creatures, like mermaids(these ones have normal legs, and usually hang out on trees), leshiy, or maybe some more tame ones, like domovoy. Thank you for the video!

  • @jbfirstdown22
    @jbfirstdown22 Год назад +1

    This was great!

  • @sarahdiane4133
    @sarahdiane4133 Год назад

    I found this just in time for my hag based dnd campaign. Thank you extra credits team!

  • @yuvalharel3537
    @yuvalharel3537 Год назад

    Wow i missed this series so much

  • @meteoric_tune454
    @meteoric_tune454 Год назад +1

    Finally a new extra mythology

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 Год назад +5

    Baba Yaga looks like Keanu Reeves

  • @kennethreyes7859
    @kennethreyes7859 Год назад +1

    was it just me or did the baba yaga at 5:40 sound like starscream from the 80s? not only that, but the flaming skull sounds a bit like skeletor doesn’t it?