Babayaga moving image by Mo, Valerie

Baba yaga Characterisation

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An ogress that steals, cooks and eats victims typically children

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Physical Attribute

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When inside her hut, she often lies on the stove, her body stretch from one corner of the hut to the other, with her nose sticking into the roof...

Some folk narrators emphasize the grote

her nose, breasts, buttocks, or vagina.

Johns, A. (1998). Baba Iaga and the Russian Mother. The Slavic and East European Journal

Backstory

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Dialogue & analysis

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"I smell Russian flesh ! Who is here?"

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threatening, a common dialogue at the time of her appearance

Do not touch the maid, you old grumbler-rumbler of a cat, it was I who brought her,

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Was an authoritative figure, as she commands the animals, house and trees

"You see, Vasilisa," she added, turning to her, "it is not easy to run away from me. My cat will scratch you, my dog will bite you, my birch-tree will lash you, and put out your eyes, and my gate will not open to let you out."

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Controlling, in order to keep the protagonist doing chores for her, she demanded the magical environment to trap her in, otherwise harm her if she tries to escape

And now, Vasilisa," said she, "take this sack of millet and pick it over seed by seed. And mind that you take out all the black bits, for if you don't I shall eat you up.

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Demanding and bullying, in the book Vasilisa the beautiful. She exploited the protagonist for work, and makes unreasonable demands as to make things difficult for her.

Emotional Attributes

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the devil cooked twelve nasty women together in a cauldron to capture the essence of evil, and the result was Baba Yaga.

the Slavs venerated the underworld goddess by this name, representing her as a frightening figure seated in an iron mortar, with an iron pestle in her hands; they made blood sacrifice to her, thinking that she fed it to the two granddaughters they attributed to her, and that she delighted in the shedding of blood herself."

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"Vasilisa the Beautiful"

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enrichment workshop animation 1

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experimental animation

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Enrichment workshop animation 2

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animatic w sound

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Babayaga twine

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one liner: An old witch who broke some law and gets prosecuted by the KGB

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Tuesday workshop cut- excerpt from animatic

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Different Visual Depictions

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constructivism

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Brutalism

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