The Messed Up Origins of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch | Fables Explained - Jon Solo

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  @JonSolo · 5 years ago · pinned

  Thanks for celebrating the 100th episode with me Solo Cups! It&apos;s been a long and interesting journey... I&apos;m excited to see where we go next 😏<br>Make sure to get your official SoloFam merch before it&apos;s gone! <a href="https://www.bonfire.com/solo-fam/">https://www.bonfire.com/solo-fam/</a>

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• MA

  @markmolino6091 · 5 years ago

  I know the Baba Yaga personally. She&apos;s my mother in law and she really lives up to the legend as well.

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• TE

  @Teddy_Rossevelt2.0 · 5 years ago

  My dyslexic ass thought the title was, Messed Up Origins of Baby Yoda... I&apos;m so done with today.

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• ЯН

  @ЯнаПаламарчук-и7ш · 5 years ago (edited)

  It was very interesting to watch this episode as I am Russian, and in Russia every kid knows Baba Yaga from early childhood)) I want to add that the legend of a hut on chicken legs goes from the real houses which were put on stumps to prevent from rotting, water, snakes and so on. Later these huts were used to contain cremated bodies. So these huts on chicken legs are literally collective tombs. And as Baba Yaga uses this hut as her home, we may now see that she is a transformed Mara, Slavic goddess of death. Baba Yaga is a chthonic creature which is nor good, nor evil. She is the guard of the Underworld, living on the border of two worlds - the world of the living and the world of the dead. That&apos;s why she can help protagonist to survive if they are brave enough)))

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• CE

  @cesarquijano94 · 5 years ago

  &quot;College Loans&quot; Lol I died.

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• CI

  @cinderfox5217 · 5 years ago

  Yo he’s legit a professional storyteller...<br>I THOUGHT THAT PROFESSION DIDN’T EXIST ANYMORE!!!!<br><br><b>AND IT DOES AND I DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE IT!!!!</b>

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• LU

  @luci.425 · 5 years ago

  &quot;not one, not two, but twelve-&quot;<br><b>puts up four fingers</b><br>&quot;that&apos;s three, twelve-&quot;<br><b>puts up all fingers</b><br>&quot;i don&apos;t have enough fingers&quot;

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• LE

  @lexiamei · 5 years ago

  Jon: Thank you, thank you... Derick!?<br> Everyone: <b>Looks at Derick</b><br>Derick: Heyyyyy...How y&apos;all doing?

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• MO

  @MochaChocoTutorials · 5 years ago

  Me a 22 year old Serbian woman: <b>still terrified of Baba Roga</b> (Its Baba Yaga, but we called her Roga in my Slavic land).

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• DA

  @DamonNomad82 · 5 years ago

  My introduction to the character of Baba Yaga was under the name &quot;Bony Legs&quot;, in a children&apos;s book by the same name. &nbsp;The story was a retelling of the Baba Yaga version of &quot;Hansel and Gretel&quot; , but with only one child, a girl named Sasha. &nbsp;As in the version Jon told in this video, the girl helps the gate to the witch&apos;s yard (by greasing the hinges with butter from her lunch), the dog (by feeding it bread) and the cat (by feeding it meat). &nbsp;In return, the cat helps Sasha by giving her a magic mirror, then imitating her voice to trick the witch into thinking Sasha is still there when she is actually running away. &nbsp;The dog helps Sasha by giving her a magic comb, and not barking to alert the witch when Sasha leaves. &nbsp;The gate is the least helpful, as it merely opens and closes silently as Sasha goes through it. &nbsp;When the witch finds out that Sasha has escaped, she chases her. &nbsp;Sasha first delays the witch by dropping the mirror behind her, and the mirror turns into a lake, forcing Bony Legs to go back and fetch her bathtub, which she uses as a boat to cross the lake. &nbsp;Sasha then stops the witch entirely by dropping the comb in a narrow place in the forest path, where the comb expands into a portcullis that blocks the way.

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• TH

  @thebigfour777 · 3 years ago

  The second part - Yaga - is from Old Slavic stem “jagåti”, which means “shining” or “glowing”. In some parts of Slavic folklore she was described as a beautiful (“glowing”) lady that guards the gate to the Underworld.

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• RE

  @redassassinyt4908 · 5 years ago

  When you realize john wick is being called an old ugly woman.

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