RUSSIAN 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Izba, Koschei, Rusalka
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Russian villains and magic women (baba yaga, koschei the deathless, the firebird) There seems to be a moral value that is sex linked. If you are active and ugly, you are bad (like baba yaga and witches) If you are passive and beautiful, you have a chance of winning the beauty contest in lie. An active and ambitious women is usually marked as bad and evil. Counterpart of the active and ambitious woman is the energetic male. Does she correspond to any american fairytale characters: Witch from hansel and gretel -- baking, shoving people in the oven (no redeeming qualities w/o thought) Witch from snow white (she"s nice at first, giving an apple, but ends up evil) niceness is a mask. Usually described as bony, old, skinny, tall. Huge nose that sticks up to the ceiling. Having iron teeth & almost not human.
