Baba ('the old'), in Slavonic Mythology, originally a thunder-witch (the devil's grandmother), was represented like Dame Holle as a little, ugly old woman, with a monstrous nose, long teeth, and dishevelled hair, flying through the sky in an iron mortar. By the Czechs she is called now the iron, now the golden Baba.
Baba
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 626
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