I used these resources when researching the annotations for this fairy tale. Most should be available through your local library, but I have included links to the titles on Amazon.com for further reading.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Fourth Edition. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000 (2003). (Also available in part on TheFreeDictionary.com.)
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"Baba Yaga." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Accessed on September 8, 2006. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga>
"Flax." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Accessed on September 8, 2006. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flax>
Franz, Marie-Louise von. "The Beautiful Wassilissa." Problems of the Feminine in Fairytales. New York: Spring Publications, 1972. Essay also appears in
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Haney, Jack V. An Introduction to the Russian Folktale. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
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Internet Movie Database. Accessed on August 26, 2006. <http://www.imdb.org>
Ivanits, Linda J. Russian Folk Belief. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1989.
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Johns, Andreas. Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
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"Kvass." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Accessed on September 8, 2006. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass>
"Linen." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Accessed on September 8, 2006. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linen>
Pilinovsky, Helen J. "By Any Other Name: An Overview of the Russian Fairy Tale in the Fantastic Tradition of the East and West." Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts. Winter 2004.
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Pilinovsky, Helen J. "Russian Fairy Tales, Part II: Baba Yaga's Domain." Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts. Autumn 2004.
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Tatar, Maria M. The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
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Warner, Marina. From Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1994.
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