# Daddy -- gimme money!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daddy-gimme-money/117904>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 8, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daddy-gimme-money/117904 "2002-07-08T14:12:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daddy-gimme-money/117904/21 "2002-07-11T17:01:07Z")

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“Yaga” = “witch”  
Baba Yaga (Grandmother Witch) is a character in Russian mythology, meant to scare the bejeebers out of misbehaving children.

She lives in a hut on fowl’s legs (yes, chicken legs out of the bottom of the house), and it is always turning in circles, so no one can sneak up on it/her.

She does not ride a broom as most Western European witches would. Instead, she travels the skies at night in a mortar and pestel, collecting naughty children. She then uses the mortar and pestel to grind their bones into flour for bread.

Check out Modeste Mussorgsky’s _Pictures at an Exhibition_. The next to last piece (IIRC) is based on a picture of BY’s hut, but more readily depicts BY’s flight. Cool piece.

More info:

[http://www.sunbirds.com/lacquer/readings/1037](http://www.sunbirds.com/lacquer/readings/1037)  
[http://www.blueroebuck.com/Goddess/babayaga.html](http://www.blueroebuck.com/Goddess/babayaga.html)  
[http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/gallery/pictures/hartmann.htm](http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/gallery/pictures/hartmann.htm) (image of the Hut from PAAE)

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**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daddy-gimme-money/117904/22 "2002-07-11T18:51:41Z")

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Actually one of my miniatures projects is to recreate Baba Yaga’s hut (_izba_); I think it would be such a fun project, and something very different.

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**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daddy-gimme-money/117904/23 "2002-07-11T18:58:39Z")

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\<total hijack\> Isn’t it amazing that so much delicious food came from peasants (of all regions) that really didn’t have much? \</total hijack\>

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