Illustrations by Ivan Bilibin for an 1899 edition of the Russian fairytale Vasilisa the Beautiful, just because I thought they were stunning, and who doesn't love a little Baba Yaga in their day.(A diptych of watercolors. L: A white haired Baba Yaga in the woods, holding a staff and looking like Serious Crone Business, apparently in some sort of stiff skirt or wooden encasement, the ground strewn with mushrooms. R: A young woman (Vasilisa) outside Baba Yaga’s hut, in the woods, holding a staff with a skull and the fence outside the hut also decorated with skulls.)
