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Regeneration - Baba Yaga can regrow lost body parts, however this process takes time.Nigh Indestructibility - As a goddess, Baba Yaga is immune to all forms of destruction, however her body is still susceptible to outside forces as she has had her fingers removed before.Nigh Invulnerability - Baba Yaga is invulnerable to all forms of harm she is completely unharmed to injury aside from being angered.Immortality - Baba Yaga is millennia old and cannot die from age or disease.Super Senses - She has demonstrated on more than one occasion the ability to see incredible distances, going so far as to even see outside of her Russia and into other parts of earth.Super Agility - She possesses supernatural agility, she is known for her terrifying agility, often described as being spider-like, she is capable of crawling around on walls and can contort her body far beyond what a human is capable of.Super Speed - Baba Yaga can travel great distances rapidly.Super Stamina - Despite having a reputation for cooking and consuming people, mostly children, she is still a goddess and doesn't require sustenance to survive.Super Strength - Baba Yaga displays inhuman strength, overpowering humans effortlessly and flinging them across the room when enraged.She has been known on occasion to offer guidance to lost souls, help heroes with their quests, although this is seen as rare.īeing a crone goddess, Baba Yaga's true form is that of a very old woman, this usually shifts between the form of a sweet grandmother to a more grotesque form with a bone-thin body and a hateful stare.īaba Yaga is an extremely powerful and unusual goddess with some unique attributes. She can't be portrayed as a good mixer or a very easy-going person, or a malevolent goddess. She is not good, but is not entirely evil either. Baba Yaga commonly appears as either a donor, malevolent, or may be altogether ambiguous.īaba Yaga has a very contradicting personality. Baba Yaga may help or hinder those that encounter or seek her out and may play a maternal role and has associations with forest wildlife. In Slavic myths, Baba Yaga flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, and dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs. It is possible that Baba Yaga was originally a triple-goddess. As Christianity spread, Baba Yaga lost most of her worshipers and was demonized to an ugly old bogeyman that lived out in the woods and ate little children.

She was once a well-respected and revered goddess in Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Perhaps one of the most well-known pieces of Slavic folklore is the myths of the goddess Baba Yaga.