is the words I"d actually use, you know. That is a good description. And succint, as opposed to my previous rather tediously descriptive one ;-)

I guess the matter may still larfely depend on one;s own interpretation.

One popular folktale has it that Baba Yaga had a house built of sweets which attracted children to it. They would eath the house, because it was so delicious, but they would pay for that by a danegrous situation, because Baba Yaga turned out to be a childreneater and was ready to bake them in her coal oven if it wasn;t for the cunning wit of the children. And the children would naturally win, happily retunring afterwards to their parents.

Tales prensenting Baba Yaga in this way have a tendency to be used by parents wishig to gve a scare to their naughty children, I suppose Sometimes a chaild can be told that if they don;t behave a witch/Baba Yaga will take them away.

On the pther handm quite frnakly, I never knew any other baba Yaga and certainly not one young and beautiful and good. But this question of certain stereotypes would, I believe, belong to a different discussion.