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I am thoroughly baffled that nobody noticed that Jaga is a well-known diminutive of Jadwiga, and "baba Yaga" is as trivial as "grandma Jadwiga" with no deeper indoeuropean root-digging. Why in Russian culture a bear is "Michail Potapych", a cat is Vaska/Vasili, a fox is Patrikeyevna, but a wolf has no stereotypical name? Nobody will never know. (Interestingly, many dog's names do have history: Barbos, Trezor, Polkan). --Altenmann >talk 23:50, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]