Ask Baba Yaga is a distillation of an advice column that appeared on the defunct website The Hairpin. Baba Yaga is an Eastern European witch who dispenses otherworldly, cryptic advice that one must think about. The old hag is pretty darn astute. I’m gone to sew mirrors on my clothes and visualize my enemies at the bottom of the sea. ( )

Laugh out loud funny, I’m hoping to convince a kid to perform this one. ( )

This was actually interesting with good advice. I almost feel like I’m too old to relate to 99% of the questions, but if nothing else it’s given me a good vision for being a BAMF crone one day. ( )

this was okay!! i liked the instagram more.

the questions all felt the same, like as if they'd been edited. the instagram seems more unedited, which i like. the advice was cryptic, and full of natural metaphors and creeping, crawling words.

but it wasn't memorable! which was a real shame. i also wanted to know more about how the author communes with baba yaga. maybe that's a part of her private practice but i did want to know more.

glad i read it, but i don't think i benefited from it much. ( )