Baba Yaga

In a memory the party watches, a cottage shifts uneasily on its chicken feet, and a voice behind a woman's ear says "You have come far." NA E9·01:56:32 NA E9·01:56:40 Brennan describes an old and ancient witch hovering in a giant stone mortar and rowing with a pestle, who looks like some primeval spirit of the forest NA E9·01:56:43. He says the party can perceive this story despite all attempts to erase it because it exists in the mind of this witch, who will not allow anything of hers to be erased NA E9·01:56:43. A card names her Baba Yaga (she/her), "The Great Witch", Traditional Folklore NA E9·01:56:52.

In the ninth episode she asks the woman who has come on a horse what she seeks, and the woman asks for help and understanding NA E9·01:57:26 NA E9·01:57:38. Baba Yaga tells her "You are Wicked Stepmother." NA E9·01:58:12 She offers to say why the woman's life is rotten if she gives her one binding favor, which the woman agrees to NA E9·01:58:18 NA E9·01:58:49. She shows her the story of her stepdaughter NA E9·01:59:11 NA E9·01:59:29. She tells her "You don't have a story! You don't even have a name." NA E9·01:59:39 In the eleventh episode the Wolf says she lives in Snowhold, that she is at the top of his short list of beings he fears, and that no mortal hunter can follow the path of her house, and Timothy adds that her house has chicken feet NA E11·00:50:38 NA E11·00:51:04 NA E11·00:51:36 NA E11·00:51:39. Snow White calls Snowhold her home NA E12·00:56:02.

In the seventeenth episode a giant stone pestle looms over the party at her hut, and a leering face leans down NA E17·01:55:20. She asks "What's this you carry with you?" NA E17·01:55:49 In the eighteenth she appears in her mortar, eight feet tall with long bandied arms and a claw, calling Pinocchio "boychik", and she pinches Pib's cheek and says she could eat him NA E18·00:02:50 NA E18·00:03:28 NA E18·00:03:54 NA E18·00:07:15. She makes them take off their shoes, spits fire into the fireplace, and says her house does not long dwell in one place and starts walking NA E18·00:06:41 NA E18·00:07:33 NA E18·00:08:38 NA E18·00:08:51. On the Authors she says they are eternal, vast and cosmic, but that she has lived in the forest through generations of them and does not worry about them NA E18·00:12:53 NA E18·00:15:55.

She says the Stepmother has taken a great deal, naming Ylfa's grandmother, and begins of Pinocchio's father "though she has not..." before breaking off, and asks what they would give for a name or a path through the woods NA E18·00:17:46. She will not negotiate on an empty stomach, and warns that if they do not know what goes in the book she will cut them down and throw them into the pages under the ink NA E18·00:18:20. She sets chores, admits to eaves-peeping, and says a gift should hurt to give NA E18·00:23:56 NA E18·00:25:04 NA E18·00:29:07 NA E18·00:30:59. Her rug is the Big Bad Wolf's head, and she says he asked her to keep her house in place until it could be found and that this was the price he paid NA E18·00:29:30 NA E18·00:30:17.

Her voice on the wind opens each trial. She asks Gerard "What would you be willing to give for what you seek, and would you give it to me?", tells Rosamund that to end the story her own way she must give it to her, and asks Pinocchio what he would give for a chance to write the story a different way NA E18·00:44:23 NA E18·00:57:00 NA E18·01:22:20. She tells Mother Goose "What of your story, Mother Goose?", takes a page from his book, and says she will come to The Lines Between with him NA E18·01:31:16 NA E18·01:37:37 NA E18·01:37:48. She tells Pib that there are very few stories about her, that she is in other people's stories but does as she will in anyone's, and takes his book from him NA E18·01:48:39 NA E18·01:50:42. At the end she smashes the cauldron of stew made from their gifts and her house takes them along the path Pib found toward The Lines Between NA E18·01:56:51 NA E18·01:57:11 NA E18·02:00:43.

In the nineteenth episode she fights beside the party in The Lines Between and casts Cone of Cold over the ziggurat NA E19·00:44:09. She shouts "Everybody but me going to die here!" NA E19·00:44:45 She counters Snow White's Counterspell with a sixth-level Counterspell NA E19·00:45:05. She dispels the Geas on Scheherazade NA E19·01:31:02. She grapples Cinderella with 20-foot arms, and wounds appear on her own arms NA E19·02:00:38 NA E19·02:00:46. In the finale she tells Cinderella's invisible helm that the soup was mostly piss, and she grabs the Red Fairy and kills her NA E20·00:13:08 NA E20·00:13:25 NA E20·01:03:33. When the Stepmother sends a cone of pages at the Authors' hand, Baba Yaga stops laughing and leaps into it NA E20·01:28:28. She says "Some things must not be allowed." and vanishes NA E20·01:28:48 NA E20·01:28:52. Afterward she swirls in the pages, picks Pib up and snuggles his tummy NA E20·02:04:35 NA E20·02:05:09. When he takes a page from her she says that in her stories she is always stolen from by something little and clever NA E20·02:06:21. She tells him "You and me, in our story, we don't learn anything and we never change." NA E20·02:06:21 In Ylfa's epilogue, as Emily tells it, Ylfa strays so deep into the woods that she meets the Baba Yaga and they get into trouble together NA E20·02:34:43 NA E20·02:35:20.