Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

The Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic taps into the folkloric figure of Baba Yaga in two stories that demonstrate the marginalization of women, particulary the old. The third section is a primer on mythic witches and their fables, including an analysis of the stories the reader has just finished. The stories themselves lack propulsion, but their themes are worth pursuing in our youth-obsessed culture.