A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.

Deborah Blake
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A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.

This is a warning against making promises that you cannot keep. It is advice to always be careful with your words and trust that people will not cheat you or your cause. This is also a warning against constantly giving out false promises and constantly lying to people in order to get what you want.

The Baba Yaga is a strange creature from Russian folklore who lives in the forest and claims to make potions and charms that can make people live forever or live to see hundreds of years old. These potions can also make one invisible and even turn them into an animal of their choice. However, her potions and charms do come with a price: They cannot be used by anyone else and if they are used, they can never be taken back or broken.

Source: Wickedly Magical

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