Baba Yaga

The ancient Slavs believed that Baba Yaga was a beautiful girl in her youth, but then the gods cursed her and turned her into a decrepit old woman with a bony leg. In the fairy tales we were read as children, Baba Yaga was presented as an antagonist, but mythology says otherwise.
She was incredibly wise, had magical powers, and was often called upon by ordinary people for help. It was believed that Baba Yaga was a guide between life and death, as well as the keeper of the forest. And huts on chicken legs, by the way, in fact, existed in antiquity. The Slavs buried the dead in the houses standing on the beams similar to chicken legs. Amazing, isn't it?