Why do they call him "Baba Yaga" if Baba Yaga is a woman?
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Why do they call him "Baba Yaga" if Baba Yaga is a woman?
Why do they call him "Baba Yaga" if Baba Yaga is a woman?
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This sounds really goofy to anyone who doesn't know Baba Yaga as an evil hag from fairy tales.
i thought everyone knew that. the head of the russian mob certainly should have
It's definitely from Slavic folklore in general. I remember Baba Yaga was repurposed as the main villain of Hansel and Gretel over here because it's just a hag by a different name.
Crones basically.
Because the writers were idiots?
How many films have you done?
a director makes a movie, not a writer
They both do.
Were you there?
...To see that they were idiots?
No, he probably wasn't.
John Wick is FtM
powerful and tpbp
They could have called him ‘Chernobog’ (‘dark god’) but idiots would have laughed at the ‘bog’ part.
They were probably thinking of babayka, which would still be funny anyway
the writers didn't even try
>boogeyman is woman
what shouldn't it be boogeywoman then?
Because Russian folklore. I guess the closest equivalent to a male Boogeyman would be Koschey, but I'm not versed well enough to be sure.
kino
>Corey Feldman vs Avatar
True kino
Slav here (not russian). When I was a kid my grandma used to tell me Kaschei lived in the dirt under your fingernails lmao.
And Baba Yaga lives in a house on chicken legs. Don't look for logic in old fairytales.
Too spoopy for me
Isn't Baba Yaga the Civilization song
Doesn't matter, by movie 4, maybe 3, they completely forgot.
They were too busy watching The Beach (2000) to think about all these details anon
because the Bogeyman sound too obvious.
>he's the guy you send to kill the fricking boogeyman
but he's the boogeyman?
So that everyone expects a woman but it's a man
Need a Russian myth that tickles the recognition parts of your brain. Can't be too obscure or people would get confused. It was a shitty decision though
>long hair
>actually a man
fits the ugly hag description a bit
So he's the baba yaga, but the baba yaga is a woman, specifically a hag from an old fairytale, but he's also more like the person you send to kill a boogeyman