- Alternative Character Interpretation: Very common. Sometimes, she helps travelers out. Other times, she eats them. And sometimes, she only eats children. Often she may do both, eating most travelers but sparing and even rewarding those who impress her in some way. At any rate, it is rare for her to be unambiguously good, even at her most helpful, she usually retains an eerie aura about her and commonly threatens to eat the overly curious.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: She is particularly popular in Poland. Of course, most Poles see her as a part of their own folklore. She is often told to have lived on the Święty Krzyż mountain ("Holy Cross" in Polish), which is often seen as an ancient site of pre-Christian cults.
- Nightmare Fuel: Baba Yaga herself, when depicted as a villainess; a wicked old witch who dwells deep in the woods and preys upon children, for no apparent reason besides the fact that she can.
- Quirky Work: Flying on a mortar and pestle? A house standing on chicken legs? Even for mythology this is kind of weird.
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