Baba

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 626

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.

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