The Bad Crowd

 

The witch in this story is supposed to be Baba Yaga, who is indeed from eastern European folklore but whom I first met as a kid playing the game Hero’s Quest (or Quest For Glory, as it came to be known). I get pretty into folklore like this sometimes, because it’s neat and also because I didn’t really grow up with any. Mennonite communities — like the one I grew up in — tend to have a lot of pragmatic, conservative people who don’t have time for “folk tales” and other imaginative nonsense. [May 14th, 2014]

2 thoughts on “The Bad Crowd

  1. OMG! I REMEMBER HER! I had that story as a book on tape that I *coughstolefromthelibrarycough* and to this DAY it still gives me the heebes.

    SHE’S BAD NEWS, GIDEON! DON’T BUTTER HER GATE!

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