Baba Yaga

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1. Slavic mythologyIn Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a character who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder.

   But elbow injuries are the Baba Yaga for pitchers, an ever-present danger.

   2023 April 7, Nick Groke, C. Trent Rosecrans, “Analyzing MLB [Major League Baseball]’s most cumbersome contracts — and trying to find a way out for each team”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2025

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   [L]ooking like the hut, minus the fat chicken legs, of Baba Yaga, the old witch with iron teeth and an appetite for a human supper.

   2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 143