On the edge of a dark forest lives the gentle and beautiful Vasilisa, in a house make miserable by her jealous stepmother and stepsisters. Deep within the same gloomy woods lives the witch Baba Yaga, in a house built of victims bones.
One night Vasilisa's stepmother orders her to
find Baba Yaga's hut and bring back a candle to light their home. It is an
errand from which she has little hope of returning alive, yet Vasilisa bravely
ventures into the forbidding forest. For protection she bears only her favorite
doll, a token of her true mother's love. Read the story of how this clever
orphan outwits the fearsome Baba Yaga and overcomes her cruel stepmother.
Introduction to Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
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