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What is the title of this children's book?
I was wondering if anyone knows the title of this book...
I vaguely remember reading it as a child. I do remember an old woman who lived in a bathtub house or something like that. There was a little girl and the old woman was planning on fattening her up and cooking her in a children stew, so the little girl ran away and there was a comb that turned into a giant fence and a mirror that turned into a giant pool of water.
Sounds like one of the Baba Yaga stories. She's a figure in a lot of Russian fairy tales-- sometimes a witch, sometimes a kindly figure. She usually lives in a strange house. In Beautiful Valissa, she lives in a house on scaly chicken legs that walk around. Some of the elements you mention are in this tale, retold at
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In the first story there was a man whose wife died and left him with a young daughter named Lubachka. Her father loved her but traveled a lot so he remarried hoping she would be Lubacka's second mom. Whenever the father was around the stepmother she was nice but mistreated Lubachka when he was gone. One day she ordered Lubachka to go into the woods and go to her stepmother's sister's house to get a special needle. On the way Lubachka stopped at her real aunt's house who told her that she was being sent to see Baba Yaga a horrible witch who ate children. Her aunt gave her a red ribbon, a bottle of sunflower oil, a loaf of bread and a piece of ham.
When she got to the house she saw an old hag weaving a loom. Baba Yaga smiles and tells her to wait while her cat watches Lubachk and the maid prepared a bath. Lubachk bribed the maid to put the fire out by giving her a kerchief. She bribed the cat with her aunt's ham, and used Baba Yaga's magical comb and blanket to escape. As she ran away she threw the bread to the dogs and as she arrived at the gate it swung shut but she oiled it with the sunflower oil and it opened. Then the trees tried to grab her so she tied them together with her Aunt's ribbon. When Baba Yaga returned she accused the cat, the tree and the maid but she only abused them while Lubachka gave them gifts. Baba Yaga chased after her but Lubachka threw down a towel and a wide river was made which the witch couldn't pass. The witch used an oxen and drank the river dry. Then Lubachka threw down the comb and it turned into a thick forest which Baba Yaga couldn't pass. When Lubachaka got home she told her father and he had his wife sent into the woods were the wolves killed her. The moral of this story is to be prepared for everything and caring for others.
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