Vasalisa the Wise

Myths and Stories

Vasalisa the Wise

Russian tale

Suddenly a man in white on a white horse galloped by and it became daylight. Farther on, a man in red sauntered by on a red horse, and the sun rose.

Vasalisa walked and walked and just as she came to the hovel of Baba Yaga a rider dressed in black came trotting on a black horse, and rode right into Baba Yaga’s hut.

Swiftly it became night. The fence made of skulls and bones surrounding the hut began to blaze with an inner fire so the clearing there in the forest glowed with an eerie
light.

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