Thanks Pokoy!
I have heard of Babajaga from my wife who is from Russia. I even saw a movie with this character and the house you mentioned but I had forgotten all about her. And I did not know that she existed in so may different cultural manifestations. I never would have guessed that she was told in Germany too. Now I will have to investigate her origins.
This Image you found is very interesting for a lot of reasons!
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What I have found, and this image represents very well, is that there are certain ideas and images that seem to transcend all cultures and borders and oceans. In this case, mushrooms. I have found mushrooms to be a part of all folklore on the planet! The mushroom is either a direct part of at least one story, or is used as a image in a least on image created for a story from every place on earth, nearly.
In many russian stories a mushroom can walk and talk and has magical powers. In native American stories mushrooms make people walk and talk funny by their magial powers
I hope to identify more visuals like the mushroom, that are present in nearly all cultural story traditions from around the world. I have been working on a story where there are lots of mushrooms as you may have seen in another thread. But I would like more ideas and visuals to add to the world I am making to help the story become more visually familiar to all potential audiences.
Thanks for helping!