Is Baba Yaga a goddess or a witch of mythology?

Question by ashstarks12: Is the Baba Yaga a goddess or just a witch of mythology?
I’ve been to a few different places on the internet. Wikipedia will probably end up screwing me over, so I’d like to hear from people who have done more in depth research regarding the mythology.

Early answers:

Answer by Ant
I know this a really dissapointing answer for you but i have never about this and I’m into this type of stuff if i learn from anybody or read it from somewhere I’ll post . but you have to remember that there all types versions for names for gods and witches and demons in mythology for every country on earth and different stories for a creature even in the U.S so you never know. if i get an answer for you I’ll post it

Answer by ʎʏɵɖɑ ʍɨʂɛʁɪɕɵʀʂ ʄɑ̃ɱʊɭʊ̈ʂ
In a number of East European myths, a Baba Yaga (there are more than one) is a cannibalistic witch who lives in a hut on the edge of the forest. The hut stands on chicken legs and will only lower itself after Baba Yaga said a certain rhyme. A picket fence surrounds the hut and she places the skulls of her victims on it. For transportation Baba Yaga uses a giant mortar which she drives at high speed across the forest floor by steering the pestle with her right hand and sweeping away all traces of her passage with a broom in her left hand. A host of spirits often follows her.

Baba Yaga is often represented as a little, ugly, old woman with a huge and distorted nose and long teeth. She is also called Jezi-Baba or Baba Yaga Kostianaya Noga (“bone-legs”), referring to the fact that she is rather skinny. She is regarded as the devil’s own grandmother.

In old Hungarian folklore, Baba (“old woman”) was originally a good fairy but was later degraded to a witch. A Baba Yaga is a hard bargainer, and will threaten to eat those who do not fulfil their part of an agreemen

Literally, it’s just an old ugly hag that eats children.

Answer by Amazon Warrior Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
Baba Yaga is the goddess of birth and death,
Her titles include: Iron Nose Woman; Iron Nose Witch; Grandmother in the Forest

She comes from comes from Russia but may be Scythian. She was later transformed in the bogeywoman in the Russian fairy tales to get children into obedience.
Baba Yaga knows every botanical secret and healing secret and can be petitioned for fertility. She is the mistress of all witches, Lady of the beasts and the Primal mother who:
rescues, nurtures and destroys.
Baba Yaga lives deep in the forest in hut that is called, “Izbushka.” Which means ‘Little hut’ which stands on two stilt like chicken feet. The hut only obeys her orders.
She favors witches, herbalists, heroes and people who are hard working activists for wild nature. She has no patience for people who whine, Slack off and are ingrates.

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