Hellboy’s Baba Yaga Anatomy Explained - How Much of Baba Yaga Is Even Human?

Mike Mignola has this great way of taking these old myths and making them feel like they’ve always belonged in the Hellboy universe, and Baba Yaga is a perfect example of that. Across a thousand years of folklore, Baba Yaga has taken on many forms, but she’s usually the mysterious old woman living in a chicken-legged hut and flying around in a mortar. She can be helpful in some versions while terrifying in others, but in Hellboy, Mignola makes these ideas much darker, giving her a personal grudge against Hellboy and a complicated history with the immortal Koshchei. So what’s really hiding beneath that old woman shape? Let’s find out!