BABAYAGA

At last when she was scratched and bruised and exhausted, she came upon a sort of strange tumbledown cottage, it stood on stilts which were like chicken legs and it seemed to be lurching about from one leg to another. The door and window catches were made from human fingers and toes and surrounding it was a fence made of bones and skulls which glowed into the forest with an eerie light.
At last when she was scratched and bruised and exhausted, she came upon a sort of strange tumbledown cottage, it stood on stilts which were like chicken legs and it seemed to be lurching about from one leg to another. The door and window catches were made from human fingers and toes and surrounding it was a fence made of bones and skulls which glowed into the forest with an eerie light.

At last when she was scratched and bruised and exhausted, she came upon a sort of strange tumbledown cottage, it stood on stilts which were like chicken legs and it seemed to be lurching about from one leg to another. The door and window catches were made from human fingers and toes and surrounding it was a fence made of bones and skulls which glowed into the forest with an eerie light.
‘What do you want?’ and Vasilisa who was so frightened she could hardly speak said,
‘I have come for fire. My house is cold… my people will die….I need fire.’
‘ Oh yessssss, I know you, and your people. Well you useless child… you let the fire go out. That’s a silly thing to do. And besides, what makes you think I should give you the flame?’Vasilisa quickly consulted the doll and replied,‘Because I ask.’
Baba Yaga paused,
‘You’re lucky, that’s the right answer, but I cannot give you the fire unless you have done some work for me, and if you cannot do it’, and here her eyes blazed like red cinders,‘ I shall eat you up.’