Baba Yaga Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Baba Yaga? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Baba Yaga from Ever After High 2013 and what is the personality traits.
INTP (9w1)
Baba Yaga personality type is INTP, the “Hermit” type. They are withdrawn, private, and prefer to live in their own heads. They seek freedom while having the freedom to pursue what they want. This type is not likely to engage in many activities, but these people can be found in places where few come. Baba Yaga is an ancient Russian witch with white hair, who lives on chicken legs, eats raw meat, and is creepy as hell. She is portrayed as a powerful force for evil.
Baba Yaga is the archetype of the INTP woman, the patriarchal society did not allow for independent women. An INTP woman would be more likely to turn to witchcraft than her male counterpart.
The Baba Yaga is NOT a female witch, but a male witch hunter (male berserkers or male witch hunters are frowned upon). Women are actually persecuted by the Baba Yaga, even if they are witches. The Baba Yaga is also not an elder witch, she is an anti-elder witch. The Baba Yaga is not elder because she does not use magic or spells to get her way (sorcery is something that only elders can do).
In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being who appears as a deformed or ferocious-looking old woman. In Slavic culture, Baba Yaga lived in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs. Baba Yaga may help or hinder those that encounter her or seek her out. She may play a maternal role and has associations with forest wildlife. According to Vladimir Propp's folktale morphology, Baba Yaga commonly appears as a donor, as a villain, or may be altogether ambiguous. Her depictions vary greatly across tales, ranging from a child-eating monster, to helping a protagonist find his missing bride. Andreas Johns identifies Baba Yaga as "one of the most memorable and distinctive figures in eastern European folklore", and observes that she is "enigmatic" and often exhibits "striking ambiguity".
