Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales

Index

 197 adolescents, xl, xli Afanas’ev, Aleksandr, ix, xiii–xiv, xl, xlii, xliv, liii, 10, 185n1, 187n23, 187–88n9 “Again the Stepmother and the Stepmother’s Daughter,” x Alexeieff, Alexander, xlii, 10, 12, 13 animals, xxxiii, xxxix, xlvii, 37–38, 74, 79, 87, 189n25 Ankarloo, Ben, liii, 185n1 apple(s), xxix, xxxvi, xliii, 45, 83, 89, 90, 91, 110, 128, 129, 130; tree(s), xlii, 84, 89, 91, 92, 110, 128, 130; of youth, xxxvi, 145, 146, 195n73 Arnold, Katya, liv audience, xvii, xviii, xlv aunt, 5, 6, 8, 93, 135, 194n59 awl, 77, 80 Baba Yaga: cannibalistic, viii, xii, xxxv, xxxvi, xliii, 22, 46, 177, 178; her daughter(s), xxiii, xxxv, xxxviii, xliii, xlvii, 11, 12, 17, 18, 69, 75, 78, 87, 192n54; etymology, xxii–xxiii “Baba Yaga and the Kid,” 187n1 Balakov, Slav, lv Balina, Marina, liii ball, 24, 26, 35, 36, 149, 150, 151, 152, 163; of cotton, 47, 48, 91; of thread/string, xxxi, xxxvi, 45, 46, 47, 62, 74, 104, 105, 111, 113, 126, 188n25 ball (dance), 60, 66 bathhouse, xxxi, xxxix, xli, 3, 5, 17, 127, 132, 134 bear(s), x, xxiii, 79–82, 83, 84, 93, 95, 126, 127, 192n48, 193n56, 196n90 “Bear Tsar, The,” 79–82 beast bridegroom, x beer, 8, 55, 65, 92, 115, 160, 164, 176, 191n45 Bel Belyanin, 149, 186n80 Beloy Polyanin, 72, 73, 74, 75–76, 77, 78, 191n42, 191n43 Benois, Alexandre, xx Bibikov, Viktor, viii, 25, 26 Bilibin, Ivan, ix, xxi, xxix, l, li, 2, 133, 173, 174, 175, 176, 180 birch tree, 5, 6, 89, 90, 91, 92, 176, 195n69, 196n78 bird(s), xxii, xxvi, xxvii, xxxiii, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxix, xliii, xlvii, 9, 11, 28, 36, 37–38, 43, 44, 56, 57, 66, 70, 73, 74–75, 79, 80–82, 83, 96, 97, 110–15, 134, 138, 159, 160, 163–64, 167, 168, 186n9, 189n25, 192n54 blacksmith, 15, 45, 104, 191n43 blood, viii, xi, xii, 22, 64, 65, 71, 89, 98, 104, 190n29 Bly, Robert, xlviii, liii bogatyr, xxvi, 16, 56, 59, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 85–88, 99, 116–21, 141, 142, 143, 153, 154, 160, 187n24, 187n9, 190n32, 192n54, 196n73 Bogatyrev, Pëtr, xvii, xviii bone(s), xxvi, xxix, xxxi, xxxvi, 4, 6, 11, 12, 16, 69, 81, 120–21, 125–26, 132, 134, 140, 141, 142, 143–44, 145, 146, 147, 163, 164, 174, 175, 192n49, 195n60 book, 29, 33, 35, 38, 194n56 Bosch, Hieronymus, 76 bread, 5, 6, 24, 54, 86, 118–20, 123, 124, 128, 169, 176, 196n98; and salt, xxxi, 162, 196n93 bride(s), xli, 16, 17, 23, 24, 67, 78, 116, 117, 161, 162, 163, 170, 188n10, 191n44 bridge, xxxi, 18, 36, 56, 58, 83, 86, 139, 159, 160, 195n72 broom, viii, xxviii, xxix, 7, 9, 26, 39, 58, 130, 175, 176, 177 brother(s), x, xxxvi, xxxviii, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 39, 41, 52, 54, 63, 64, 65, 67–68, 71, 74–75, 77, 86, 89–91, 96, 100, 110, 111, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 124, 125, 128–30, 135, 137, 138, 147, 148, 150, 154–55, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 186n9, 187n9, 191n36, 191n44, 193n56, 195n72, 196n92; brother(s)-in-law, 52, 55, 190n32 “Brother, The,” xviii, xxviii, xxxvi, xlii INDEX  198 Index Brown, Ruth, liv brush, xxxi, 70, 112, 113, 187n9 bull, 7, 65, 76; bullock, 81–83, 192n49 butterfly, xxii Bychkov, Aleksei Aleksandrovich, 53 Bykova, Katherine, 129 Campbell, Joseph, 186n10 carpet, x, xxix, xxxv, 29–30, 66, 87, 98, 99, 118, 122, 124. See also flying carpet cat, xxviii, xxxviii, xl, xliii, xlv, 5, 6, 9, 11, 37, 47, 48, 90, 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 186n9 cattle, 79, 93, 115 cave, 39, 40, 149, 150 censorship, ix, xvii Chandler, Robert, xv, liii, 185n2 chest. See trunk chicken(s), xxvii, 80, 172; leg(s), viii, xxvii, xliv, 3, 22, 23, 24, 46, 47, 62, 69, 83, 90, 91, 111, 112, 121, 125, 126, 129, 132, 135, 136, 163, 166, 168, 186n12, 188n25 children’s books, viii, xx, xliv, liv church, Christian, viii, 20, 21, 108, 109 Cinderella, x, xl cobbler(s), 77, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160 comb, xxxi, xxxii, 6, 7, 70, 82, 112, 113, 182, 187n9 copper, 112, 113, 150, 151, 155, 157, 160, 162, 163 Cossack, 76 cows, 93 Craft, Kinuko Y., xlix, liv crow, 115 daughter(s), xxiii, xxiv, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xl, xliii, xlv, xlvii, l, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 37...