Folks of All Mythology

  House in Misty Woods. (Source:  Wallpaper Flare )     For my story about the evil Baba Yaga triplet, I'll be using  Project Gutenberg . For the morally gray Baba Yaga triplet, I'll be using  Russian Folk-Tales . For the good Baba Yaga, I'll be using  Wikisource — Márya Moryévna .      I'm thinking about doing a fourth story centered on one of Baba Yaga's servants (day, sun, and night). If I do that, I'll be using  Russian Folk-Tales  again.     Aside from the potential fourth story which will be from a servant's perspective, all the stories will be from the hero's POV. It's not something I wanted to change because I feel it would be the best way to tell the story. I'm also thinking of keeping them in the past because I want to put signs up that all three heroes just missed meeting each other by like half an hour. I thought that would be a nice humorous tie-in, since the Baba Yaga is supposed to be hard to find, and ...

      Baba Yaga, from Vasilisa the Beautiful 5. Ivan Bilibin. 1900. (Source:  Wikimedia Commons )      For my topic, I've chosen stories around the Russian folktale figure Baba Yaga. Most of the popular stories focus on her being either a child-eater or an all-ages cannibal. However, there are some stories where she is portrayed as more of a morally ambiguous character and in one story even a really good guy. I think those stories are much more interesting.     Probably the most interesting thing about the character is she is sometimes portrayed as not one person but a trio of sisters! This is the main detail I want to carry over to my storybook with each story being a different triplet with a different personality.     The first story is the main Baba Yaga story in  The Project Gutenberg EBook of Russian Fairy Tales, by W. R. S. Ralston . This story is about a girl whose father marries an abusive woman who turns out to be...

 My Four Possible Topics     These are listed in alphabetical order and not the order of most to least likely to use for my project. 1. Alaskan Legends          Native American mythologies and folktales, in general, have always been fascinating to me. I've heard some stories from a whole bunch of different tribes, but the only one I've heard from the Inuit tribe is about a fox who becomes a guy's wife. From what I also know about the Inuits, I think their stories are probably really cool and interesting.     These stories are the ones I'm least familiar with out of the four, so I'm not quite sure what I want to learn from them. I think just learning about aspects of their culture and lifestyle through their stories.     As for the retelling of stories, switching points of view or swapping genders would be cool for these stories, especially the ones listed in Reading B. Those stories seem like they're going to be the most fun to...