Baba Yaga - A Scary Story for Halloween

http://storynory.com/2008/10/13/baba-yaga-a-scary-story-for-halloween/

there is a good chance that you might come across a peculiar house.
peculiar:strange, unfamiliar, or a little surprising

It’s a wooden hut, but it’s like no other that you have ever seen, for it stands on giant chicken legs -
and quite often it walks about, just like a monstrous farm-yard bird.
monstrous:unusually large

They know her, and they fear her, for it has long been rumored that she likes to eat children.
rumor:if something is rumoured to be true, people are saying secretly or unofficially that it may be true [↪ alleged]

It was a little rag doll that did not look so different from any other.
rag: small piece of old cloth, for example one used for cleaning things

the stepmother and step-sisters had to pretend that they liked her,
stepmother: a woman who is married to your father but who is not your mother

her father said that he had to go away on a journey that would last at least a month.
journey:a time spent travelling from one place to another, especially over a long distance [= trip American English]

and the girl would find the journey tiresome and dull.
tiresome:making you feel annoyed or impatient
impatient:annoyed because of delays, someone else's mistakes etc [≠ patient]

The first night after the father had left, the step-mother gathered the three girls together in the parlor and spoke like this:
parlor:a room in a house which has comfortable chairs and is used for meeting guests

Katya ” - that was the youngest - ” go to the kitchen table and roll some pastry so that it’s nice and flat.
pastry:a mixture of flour, butter, and milk or water, used to make the outer part of baked foods such as pies


She walked forlornly to the corner of the street and took the little doll out of her coat pocket where it had been sleeping.
forlornly:seeming lonely and unhappy

And every one knows that she is a dreadfully wicked witch.
dreadfully:extremely or very much
wicked:behaving in a way that is morally wrong

After a while, the young girl heard the sound of galloping hooves coming up behind her,
galloping:increasing or developing very quickly
hoof:the hard foot of an animal such as a horse, cow etc

and she stepped off the road to let a hose ridden by a rider in a blazing red cloak shoot past her.
blazing:extremely hot
cloak:a warm piece of clothing like a coat without sleeves that hangs loosely from your shoulder

and this time a rider in a cloak of dazzling white sped past her and down the road that led to Baba Yaga’s hut.
dazzling:a light that is dazzling is very bright and makes you unable to see properly for a short time

The skulls were mounted on stop of a high fence.
mount: to go up a step or stairs

Then the chicken legs began to kneel and the hut lowered to the ground. The door creaked open.
lower:to move something down from higher up [≠ raise]
creak:if something such as a door, wooden floor, old bed, or stair creaks, it makes a long high noise when someone opens it, walks on it, sits on it etc

Baba Yaga’s nose was so long and bony that it appeared through the door before the rest of her.
bony:someone or part of their body that is bony is very thin
thin:having little fat on your body [≠ fat]

Vasilissa was so frightened that her legs would not obey her when she told them to run.
frightened:feeling afraid [= scared]

“Well child,” she said,”Did the cat get your tongue? Or are you just badly brought-up?
well-brought-up:a child who is well-brought-up has been taught to be polite and to behave well
parent.

I haven’t got all night hover around while you tremble and gibber like an idiot !”
tremble:to shake slightly in a way that you cannot control, especially because you are upset or frightened
gibber:to speak quickly in a way that is difficult to understand, especially because you are very frightened or shocked [↪ jabber]


This story is a wicked Stepmother sends Vasilissa to visit the witch in her hut in the woods to ask for some lights. A wicked witch has been rumored that she like to eat children. It is dreadfully wicked.

The witch is dreadfully wicked, and stepmother is awful person.
I don't want to marry the woman.
I can read the story a lot. The word is 1085.