Anatomy of Baba Yaga - Sheldon® Comic Strip

TITLE: Anatomy of Monsters: Anatomy of Baba Yaga

DESCRIPTION: An old lady with a long crooked nose, white scraggly hair held down. by a red head scarf, wide eyes, mouth open in a witchy cackle, walks along a path. She has a brown leather bag across her shoulder decorated with bones. Her dress and cloak are brown and tattered. Behind her is a cottage held up by chicken legs.

JOKES:
- Part forest-guardian and part local terror, she’s a Slavic witch who rewards the polite and (accidentally!) eats the rude.
- (pointing to the previous joke) “Accidentally” is doing a lot of heavy lifting, there.
- As far as witches go, she’s reasonable! Provided you can survive her easy-to-remember 608-step chores.
- If you pretend you’ve never heard it before, doesn’t the name BABA YAGA sound like a Swedish band that won Eurovision in 2009?
- (pointing to the cottage) Her house walks around on giant chicken legs. Which, Honestly? In this housing market? I’d make an offer.
- She doesn’t ride a broomstick! She rides a mortar-and-pestle.
- (pointing to previous joke) Which is fun for her, because everyone born after 1810 has to Google what a “Mortar-and-pestle” is.
- Famously, her house is surrounded by a fence of human bones. Which is an aggressive way of saying “kick that ball into my yard, you AIN’T GETTIN’ IT BACK.”

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