The True Horror of Baba Yaga

The scariest monster in folklore isn't what you think. Everyone fears vampires and werewolves,

but the most terrifying creature ever created was designed to traumatize children into obedience.

Meet the Baba Yaga from Slavic folklore. This witch doesn't just eat bad children, she lives in a house

that walks on chicken legs and flies around in a giant mortar, hunting with a pestle. But here's the twisted

part. She was invented by parents during famines when they couldn't feed their

kids. The legend warned children to never wander into the forest alone because

something worse than starvation waited there. It kept kids close to home when families

were literally deciding who would eat and who wouldn't. The Baba Yaga wasn't just a bedtime story.