Laudna, Witch of the Woods

Here is a crispy autumnal piece I just had to paint when I thought of the paralells between Laudna and certain Slavic folklore elements.

Baba Yaga’s Hut

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The iron-toothed crone with a leg of bone that dwells deep in the woods, Baba Yaga is said to steal and eat young children.

Propaganda under the cut

Boss Lady

(mod note) i choose a pic from the live action show but this counts as her from the manga too ok!!

ICONIC ICONIC!!! idk why not more people are talking about her

her husband died and now she has entered her flop era. you bet your ass she is the baddest bitch at the grocery checkout tho!!

for the live action series: in the show her husband is still alive - hes just broke so we get grocery store arc anyways! everyone needs to watch him doing back up for her at karaoke please theyre so iconic

Baba Jaga

She is a witch, she is literally THE hag. She can do both! One time she is a repulsive and ferocious old woman who fries and eats children, and in other times she is a nice old woman, who helps out the hero.

She has a house, a moving house that walks on chicken legs! She lives the cottage dream and is free roaming in the wilderness and forests.

she is THE grumpy/sassy old lady. she lives in a chicken leg house and flies around in a mortar and pestle. she eats naughty kids. og old hag

She's the Ultimate Old Hag. She's got it all - a cat, a flying mortar, a hut standing on a chicken leg deep in the forest. She's got the old hag swag. If you give her a visit she might help you but she might also eat you.

BABA YAGA

🧙🏻‍♀️ In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, also spelled Baba Jaga (from Polish), is a supernatural being (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who appears as a deformed and/or ferocious-looking woman. In fairy tales 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. Baba Yaga may help or hinder those that encounter or seek her out and may play a maternal role; she has associations with forest wildlife. According to Vladimir Propp's folktale morphology, Baba Yaga commonly appears as either a donor or a villain, or may be altogether ambiguous.

🧙🏻‍♀️ Andreas Johns identifies Baba Yaga as "one of the most memorable and distinctive figures in eastern European folklore", and observes that she is "enigmatic" and often exhibits "striking ambiguity". Johns summarizes Baba Yaga as "a many-faceted figure, capable of inspiring researchers to see her as a Cloud, Moon, Death, Winter, Snake, Bird, Pelican or Earth Goddess, totemic matriarchal ancestress, female initiator, phallic mother, or archetypal image".

🧙🏻‍♀️ Variations of the name Baba Yaga are found in many East Slavic languages. The first element is a babble word which gives the word бабушка (babushka or 'grandmother') in modern Russian, and babcia ('grandmother') in Polish. In Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Bulgarian and Romanian baba means 'grandmother' or 'old woman'. In contemporary Polish and Russian, baba is the pejorative synonym for 'woman', especially one that is old, dirty or foolish.

🧙🏻‍♀️ Yaga is more etymologically problematic and there is no clear consensus among scholars about its meaning. In the 19th century, Alexander Afanasyev proposed the derivation of Proto-Slavic *ož and Sanskrit ahi ('serpent'). This etymology has been explored by 20th century scholars. Related terms appear in Serbo-Croatian jeza ('horror', 'shudder', 'chill'), Slovene jeza ('anger'), Old Czech jězě ('witch', 'legendary evil female being'), modern Czech jezinka ('wicked wood nymph', 'dryad'), and Polish jędza ('witch', 'evil woman', 'fury'). The term appears in Old Church Slavonic as jęza/jędza ('disease'). In other Indo-European languages the element iaga has been linked to Lithuanian engti ('to abuse (continuously)', 'to belittle', 'to exploit'), Old English inca ('doubt', 'worry", 'pain'), and Old Norse ekki ('pain', 'worry').

Autumn art prompt - ‘CABIN’ 

Dasha & @bigfatbreak1's Curly in winter clothing, mushroom picking 🍄

Baba Jaga’s hut counts as a bird monster!

Some Slavic D&D designs

Baba Yaga~

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Baba Jaga

Inspired by the bedtime story i always got told when i was younger :)

So enjoy this little artwork of baba jaga, an old forest witch that occasionally steals and eats children…

New ISO collab underway on Pixel Joint! The theme is mythology, and here's my first tile, the top of Baba Jaga's hut and an as of yet unfinished serpentine beast.

The Bottom of the hut was started by Xmenekai and the right side was finished by Tipleloop.

BABA JAGA 🖤