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Kotyhoroshko, also Kotygoroshko, is the hero of the Eastern European folk tale of Ukrainian origin of the same name, centered around a boy of extraordinary strength who was born from a pea and freed his own brothers and sisters from the captivity of a serpent

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The Rainbow Serpent is a powerful, often creator-god deity in many Aboriginal Australian mythologies, representing life, water, fertility, and the shaping of the land (mountains, rivers) during the Dreamtime; it appears as a rainbow or a great snake, embodying both creation and destruction, acting as a guardian of waterholes and teaching moral codes for respecting the land and water.

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The Llama's Secret by Argentina Palacios is a 1993 children's book, part of the Legends of the World series, that retells a Peruvian legend about a great flood. Illustrated by Charles Reasoner, the story features a llama that warns animals and people about the angry sea god Mamacocha's plan to flood the earth, prompting them to flee to a mountain for safety.

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A key figure from Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga certainly fulfils the requirements of the wicked witch - she lives in a house that walks through the forest on chicken legs, and sometimes flies around (close to ground level) in a giant mortar and pestle. She usually appears as a hag or crone, and she is known in most witch-like fashion to feast upon children.

As demonstrated in the Russian fairy tale Vasilisa the Beautiful (depicted above in a 19th-Century illustration), Baba Yaga can be both heroine and villain (Credit: Getty Images)

However, she is also a far more complex character than that synopsis suggests. Cunning, clever, helpful as much as a hindrance, she could indeed be the most feminist character in folklore.

So enduring is the legend of Baba Yaga that a new anthology of short stories, Into the Forest (Black Spot Books), has just been released, featuring 23 interpretations of the character, all by leading women horror writers. The stories span centuries, with Sara Tantlinger's Of Moonlight and Moss offering a dream-like evocation of one of the classic Baba Yaga stories, Vasilisa the Beautiful, while Carina Bissett's Water Like Broken Glass sets Baba Yaga against the backdrop of World War Two. Meanwhile Stork Bites by EV Knight ramps up the horrific aspects of the myth as a salutary tale for inquisitive children.
The history of Yaga
Baba Yaga appears in many Slavic and especially Russian folk tales, with the earliest recorded written mention of her coming in 1755, as part of a discourse on Slavic folk figures in Mikhail V Lomonosov's book Russian Grammar. Before that, she had appeared in woodcut art at least from the 17th Century, and then made regular appearances in books of Russian fairy tales and folklore.

If you're a film fan, you might recognise the name from the John Wick films starring Keanu Reeves, in which the eponymous anti-hero is called Baba Yaga by his enemies, giving him the mysterious allure of an almost mythical bogeyman. Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki used Baba Yaga as the basis for the bathhouse proprietor in his award-winning 2001 movie Spirited Away. Baba Yaga appears in music, too; Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 suite Pictures at an Exhibition features a ninth movement called The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga). She might well be making an appearance on the small screen soon, as well; Neil Gaiman used her in his Sandman comics for DC, the adaptation of which has just had its second season announced by Netflix.

Gaiman also used Baba Yaga in The Books of Magic comic series, and the way he has deployed the character highlights her moral ambiguity: where she was helpful in Sandman, she is more of a baddie in Books of Magic. He tells BBC Culture he first encountered Baba Yaga aged six or seven when he read children's fantasy book The Dragon's Sister and Timothy Travels by British writer Margaret Storey, in which she appeared. "[I] felt she was the most interesting of all the witches, and felt that way even more when I read some of the Russian stories in which she appears," he says. "She seems to have her own life outside of the story, which so few fairy tale characters do."

Into the Forest is edited by Lindy Ryan, a writer and full-time professor of data science and visual analytics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey who is also the founder of Into the Forest's publisher Black Spot Books, a small press dedicated to female horror writers. So how did an American end up fascinated by this Slavic myth?

"My Russian stepmother emigrated to the United States shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union," says Ryan, "and along with my stepsister and step-babushka, she brought borscht, matryoshka dolls, and Baba Yaga. While most girls my age were growing up with nicely sanitised Disney version princesses, I preferred the stories by Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen - and, of course, in the books of Slavic fairytale and folklore that talked of Baba Yaga."

Baba Yaga has been an inspiration for animation legend Hayao Miyazaki, including with the character of the bathhouse proprietor in Spirited Away (Credit: Alamy)

In fact, the origins of Baba Yaga might go back far further than the 17th Century - there's a school of scholarly thought that says she's a Slavic analogue of the Greek deity Persephone, goddess of spring and nature. She's certainly associated with the woods and forests, and the wildness of nature. "The essence of Baba Yaga exists in many cultures and many stories, and symbolises the unpredictable and untameable nature of the female spirit, of Mother Earth, and the relationship of women to the wild," says Ryan.

What lifts Baba Yaga above the usual two-dimensional witches of folklore is her duality, sometimes as an almost-heroine, sometimes as a villain, and her rich, earthy evocation of womanhood. "Baba Yaga still remains one of the most ambiguous, cunning, and clever women of folklore," says Ryan. "[She] commands fear and respect, and simultaneously awe and desire. I admire her carelessness and her independence, even her cruelty, and in a world where women are so often reduced to hazy blurs of inconsequence, she is a figure that reminds us that we are ferocious and untameable, and that such freedoms often come at a cost."

In fact, she's something of a proto-feminist icon. "Absolutely she is," says Yi Izzy Yu, one of the authors who has contributed a story to Into the Forest. One of the ways in which she merits such a description is that she completely upends the nurturing mother stereotype applied to women by eating children rather than pushing them out or breastfeeding them. "She's powerful despite not being attractive in a conventional sense. She lives by her own magical terms rather than mundane rules," says Izzy. "And she challenges conceptual categories at every turn. Even her home is both house and chicken, making her, yes, housebound in a sense, but not in any way 'tied down'. In this [way], I guess, she is an early motorhome gypsy."
A true outlaw
Izzy likens Baba Yaga to trickster characters from many mythologies, such as Norse god of mischief Loki or Coyote from Native American folklore. "While Baba Yaga often plays a villain, she is also likely to offer assistance. For example, in Vasilisa the Beautiful, she helps free Vasilisa from the clutches of her evil stepfamily," she says. "And while Baba's dangerous to deal with, like many of those who operate on the shadowy side of the law in contemporary movies, she can as well prove herself invaluable in dangerous circumstances.

"In this way, Baba Yaga complicates the passive female nurturing role with a type of 'I'll do whatever the heck I want' outlaw power that you ordinarily only see associated with men. You could say then that Baba Yaga crosses the wicked witch trope with the fairy godmother trope to create an ultimately far more unpredictable and powerful role than either of those."

Izzy was born and grew up in Northern China, and as a great deal of Russian literature was translated into Chinese, Baba Yaga crossed the border and into the Chinese psyche. "My first exposure to Baba Yaga was a Chinese cartoon I saw when I was very young. I remember this cartoon because I told my grandmother that Baba Yaga looked exactly like my Big Uncle. This made her laugh. Big Uncle did not laugh," says Izzy.

The John Wick films are some of the unlikelier cultural works to reference Baba Yaga, as the name given to Keanu Reeves' anti-hero by his enemies (Credit: Alamy)

The trope of the mountain or forest crone or witch is a popular one across East Asia, mainly because, says Izzy, "the mountains are associated with great spiritual power and with hermit figures who decide to live life on their own terms - much like how Baba Yaga is very much her own woman". She adds that in Japan there's a character called Yamamba who is "strikingly similar to Baba Yaga - she too is often portrayed as having repulsive physical features and a taste for children. She is also morally ambiguous, alternately described as a monster cannibal or an agent of change and transformation, and a guardian of heroes".

For Lindy Ryan, the concept of a women-centric horror anthology came before the idea of a Baba Yaga-themed book... but the great witch of the forest exerted her influence. "I wanted the anthology to feature the voices of women around the world who were unafraid to tell their stories, to tap into their own wildness and wickedness, and in that way I feel like Baba Yaga came to me as a muse for the anthology," she explains. "What was perhaps most surprising was the readiness with which contributors took to the task, and the resonance that Baba carries across the world. She truly is a universal character, and I was amazed at the responses from women around the world who united their voices with hers."

Izzy's contribution, The Story of a House, explores one of the unique facets of the Baba Yaga myth - her ramshackle cottage that walks on chicken legs, recounting its creation and construction. "I was just charmed thinking of the little chicken legs of this big old house. This directly led me to wanting to write something about the house. As well, I had just come off translating The Shadow Book of Ji Yun - a collection of 18th-Century Chinese weird tales. It's filled with fox spirits, Tibetan Red-Hat black magic, and other flavours of shamanism, as well as stories of preternaturally intelligent or empowered animals and weird metamorphoses. This inspired the atmosphere I wanted to create in The Story of a House and its themes."

Does the legend of Baba Yaga have any lessons for us today? Izzy thinks so. "She's a shamanic trickster, a category and boundary-crosser, a [reminder] that freedom lies a little beyond the border of social norms, and that we can learn as much from the dark as the light. Ultimately, I think she teaches 'Both/And' logic. She reminds us that we are both hero and villain, that a chicken can also be a house, and that we can embrace both the desires of the flesh and the secrets of the spirit."

Ryan agrees, and has a salutary warning for those who would dismiss the power of Baba Yaga, and in doing so, women everywhere. "I think we'd do best to remember that Baba Yaga may hide herself in the woods, but she is watching and she is remembering," she says.
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Myths and folktales are a great way to introduce kids to a variety of cultures. Not only that, you can be sure that only good stories survive the test of being passed down generation after generation. Hispanic Heritage Month starts September 15, so now is a great time to introduce your kids to folktales from Latin America.

Latin American Folktales: Picture Books for Kids

Most of these titles include a spattering of Spanish words and phrases ( a glossary is usually included) and several are either bilingual or have Spanish versions available. Although there are folktale anthologies available, I've chosen picture books for this collection since they are often more appropriate for younger kids. As always, I'd love to know if you've read and enjoyed any of the titles on this list and if you have any recommendations for further reading, your comments are very welcome!

{ Note: Book choices and opinions are entirely my own - and my kids'! I have included affiliate links should a title spark your interest.}

Before I started researching books for this list I would never have expected to find a Lois Elhert book to include! Much less, two. That's not because I didn't think it was the kind of book she would write, but because I would have bet money I'd already read her entire oeuvre! Elhert fans will love both of these bilingual stories.Moon Rope ( Peru) is a porquois tale explaining why moles prefer a solitary life in tunnels. It is surprisingly funny! In Cuckoo ( Mexico), the beautiful but lazy Cuckoo comes through for her feathered friends when she sets aside her vanity to save much-needed seeds from a devastating fire, proving once again that inner beauty is more important than fine plumage.

Conejito ( Panama). Oh, how my 4 year old loves his trickster tales! Conejito is on his way to Tía Mónica's house for some delicious treats. On the way he encounters a tiger, a fox and a lion ( who would all consider our hero a tasty treat). Spanish words are sprinkled throughout the text ( glossary included) and kids will have fun joining in Conejito's song ( as will moms like me who enjoy hamming it up).

The Bossy Gallito ( Cuba). This is a cumulative folktale that reminded me quite a bit of Ken Brown's The Scarecrow's Hat. El Gallito (the Rooster) is on his way to a wedding and when he stops to eat two muddy kernels of corn he tries to convince the grass to clean his beak. The grass refuses and so El Gallito requests help from a goat, a stick, fire, and a stream but to no avail. Finally he gets the relief he needs from the sun.
Do you have any Latin American folktales to recommend?
Don't forget! I have a new book list every Monday, and don't miss all my folktale lists:
African Folktales
Folktales from India
Native American Folktales
Celtic and Irish Myths & Legends

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While a Great Spirit constitutes the basis of Indian theory, the tribes believe in multiple deities surrounded by mythology. In accordance with their views of nature and spirit, they constantly appeal to these powers at every step of their lives. They hear the Great Spirit in every wind; see him in every cloud; fear him in sounds, and adore him in every place that inspires awe. While cultures and customs varied among the tribes, they all believed the universe was bound together by spirits of natural life, including animals, water, plants, the sky, and the Earth itself.

Native American culture struggled to survive after the white man invaded their lives. Living through forced moves, war, starvation, diseases, and assimilation, these strong and spiritual people kept their many legends and stories alive. Passed down through the generations, these tales speak of timeless messages of peace, life, death, and harmony with nature.

The sacred beliefs of many tribes are largely formulated and expressed in sayings and narratives resembling the legends of European peoples. There are available large collections of these tales and myths from the Blackfoot, Crow, Nez Perce, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Arapaho, Arikara, Pawnee, Omaha, Northern Shoshone, and others. In these, much interesting information can be found. Though each tribe has its own beliefs and sacred myths, many have much in common.

A deluge or flood myth is almost universal in the Plains tribes and the Woodland Indians. Almost everywhere, it takes the form of restoring the submerged earth by a more or less human being who sends down a diving bird or animal to obtain a little mud or sand. Other tales with common threads are the "Twin-heroes" - the Woman who married a star and bore a Hero" and the "Woman who married a Dog." A star-born hero is found in myths of the Crow, Pawnee, Dakota, Arapaho, Kiowa, Gros Ventre, and Blackfoot. Indian mythologies often contain large groups of tales reciting the adventures of a distinguished mythical hero with supernatural attributes, who transforms and, in some instances, creates the world, who rights great wrongs, and corrects great evils, yet who often stoops to trivial and vulgar pranks. Among the Blackfoot, for instance, he appears under the name of Napiw, also called "Old Man." He is distinctly human in form and name. The Gros Ventre, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Hidatsa, and Mandan have similar characters in their mythology.

The "Old Man" also appears in the mythologies of the adjoining cultural areas, such as the area between the Plains and the Pacific Ocean. Some tales appear similar but are attributed to an animal character with the name and attributes of a coyote. Under this name, he appears among the Crow, Nez Perce, and Shoshone on the western fringe of the Plains but rarely among the Pawnee, Arikara, and Dakota and practically never among the tribes designating him as human. This hero is given a spider-like character called Unktomi among the Assiniboine, Dakota, and Omaha.

In addition to heroes, many animal tales are to be found, which often explain the structural peculiarities of animals due to some accident. For example, the Blackfoot trickster, while in a rage, tried to pull the lynx asunder, causing it to have a long body and awkward legs. In other cases, the tales narrate an anecdote about the origin of life itself. In some tales, the ending includes how some aspect of life was "ordered to be," explaining a natural phenomenon or mythical belief.

There are also tales in which supernatural beings appear as well-known animals and assist or grant favors to humans. In the mythology of the Plains tribes, the buffalo is a favorite character and is seldom encountered in the mythology of other areas. The bear, beaver, elk, eagle, owl, and snake are also frequently referred to but also occur in the myths of Woodland and other tribes. Of imaginary creatures, the most conspicuous are the water monster and the Thunderbird. The former is usually an immense horned serpent who keeps underwater and fears thunder. The thunderbird is an eagle-like being who causes thunder.

Migration legends and those accounting for the origins and forms of tribal beliefs and institutions comprise a large portion of the mythology, formulating a concept of the religion and philosophy of various groups.

Compiled by Kathy Alexander/ Legends of America, updated May 2023.

"In ages past, our old ones were the storytellers. This was the way things were passed along to the generations that followed. For this reason, the aged people made it a point to remember every detail so they could relate it at a later time. They were the word and picture carriers making history and spiritual values alive and important. In recent times we have made our old ones think they are not so important. We spoof their stories and make them feel foolish. The truth is that we are ignorant of what is precious and how to 'a da li he li tse di - appreciate age. Rigidity can creep in and set even the young mind if there are no soft memories, no laughter, no times too deep for tears. Age is grace - a time too valuable to waste."

- Joyce Sequichie Hifler from her book A Cherokee Feast of Days
Also See: Native American Proverbs & Wisdom Native American Rituals and Ceremonies Native American Totems The Role of Astronomy and Mythology In Native American Culture

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The legends of Bigfoot go back beyond recorded history and cover the world. In North America - and particularly the Northwest - you can hear tales of seven-foot-tall hairy men stalking the woods, occasionally scaring campers, lumberjacks, hikers and the like.

Bigfoot is known by many titles with many different cultures although the name Bigfoot is generally attributed to the mountainous Western region of North America. The common name Sasquatch comes from the Salish Sasquits, while the Algonquin of the north-central region of the continent refer to a Witiko or Wendigo. Other nations tell of a large creature much like a man but imbued with special powers and characteristics. The Ojibway of the Northern Plains believed the Rugaru appeared in times of danger and other nations agreed that the hairy apparition was a messenger of warning, telling man to change his ways.

This is a wooden statue on display at the Western Air Defense Sector.
North American settlers started reporting sightings during the late 1800s and into the 1900s with the occasional finding of footprints, sporadic encounters and even a few grainy photos and videos adding to the mystery. Those who claim to have seen Bigfoot have described everything from a large, upright ape to an actual hairy human, sometimes standing over eight feet tall and described as powerfully built. The debate and research continue. Entire organizations exist to study and document Bigfoot and prove its existence and groups regularly search the Northwest woods, looking for that ultimate proof.

In one very real sense, however, Bigfoot does exist. The Western Air Defense Sector, Washington Air National Guard adopted the mascot of Bigfoot and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week monitoring the skies of nearly 73 percent of the United States and Canada. Just like the Bigfoot of legend, the sector is rarely seen and rarely heard, but rest assured it continues to observe and - if necessary - serve as a messenger of warning.

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