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    Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles
    Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles
    Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles
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    Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles

    By Taisia Kitaiskaia

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    Dear Baba Yaga,
    I think I must crave male attention too much. I fear that, without it, I would feel invisible.
     
    BABA YAGA:
    When you seek others this way, you are invisible nonetheless. Yr shawl is covered in mirrors in which others admire themselves; this is why they greet you so passionately. It is good to be seen, but it is better to see. Find a being to look hard into, & you will see yrself and what is more than you.
     
    In age-old Slavic fairy tales, the witch Baba Yaga is sought out by those with a burning need for guidance. In contemporary life, Baba Yaga—a dangerous, slippery oracle—answered earnest questions on The Hairpin for years. These pages collect her most poignant, surreal, and humorous exchanges along with all-new questions and answers for those seeking her mystical advice.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 26, 2017
    ISBN9781449488253

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    • 4/5
      This was actually interesting with good advice. I almost feel like I’m too old to relate to 99% of the questions, but if nothing else it’s given me a good vision for being a BAMF crone one day.
    • 2/5
      this was okay!! i liked the instagram more.

      the questions all felt the same, like as if they'd been edited. the instagram seems more unedited, which i like. the advice was cryptic, and full of natural metaphors and creeping, crawling words.

      but it wasn't memorable! which was a real shame. i also wanted to know more about how the author communes with baba yaga. maybe that's a part of her private practice but i did want to know more.

      glad i read it, but i don't think i benefited from it much.

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