What is the name of the witch who lives in a hut on chicken legs?

Baba Yaga is the witch-like figure who lives in a hut on chicken legs. She is one of the best-known characters in Slavic folklore, especially in Russian fairy tales, where she can be frightening, helpful, or morally unpredictable.

Her hut is often described as turning in place and standing in an open forest or field. Baba Yaga may travel in a mortar, propel herself with a pestle, and use a broom to sweep away her tracks. Stories also give her striking epithets such as “bony-legged Baba Yaga” and describe her as possessing iron teeth.

She is not simply a standard evil witch. In some tales she threatens to eat visitors; in others, she tests a hero and provides fire, advice, food, or magical assistance. Rusalka, Marzanna, and Kikimora are also figures from Slavic traditions, but none is identified by the famous chicken-legged hut.