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In the folklore of the Komi peoples of this hostess of cereals, bread, mistress of flora and fauna, mistress of the forest. She lives in a dense forest, listen to her animals and birds.

It is connected with the bottom or other edge of the world. Her world is separated from the human world forest, mountain, river, tar fire, etc.

She has long teeth, often iron, iron nails, long nose, pressed against the ceiling (the floor, in a corner, with his help, she drowns oven or put into the oven the loaves), hairy eyes, often blind, with the nose she smells better than he sees.

Her image is similar to the Russian Baba Yaga. She also lives in a hut on chicken legs, chicken egg (copper, silver, gold), without Windows, without doors, which, when caught, the hero is transformed into a room with three, two and then one angle.

Unlike Baba Yaga, does not move in a mortar. As vehicles there is a "huge cat", which can fly through the air, swim under water, etc.

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