User blog comment:Aphrodite Sweetheart/Official Winx Club WOW and 4th movie discussion blog/@comment-31892545-20170723234417

I've been doing some research on Baba Yaga, a figure who appears in Slavic folklore, who's also the namesake for a minor antagonist in S2 of WOW.

Apparently, this character has two sisters of the same name.

So, I'm thinking that if there is a S3 of WOW, Baba Yaga's coven she is going to summon are her sisters, Baba Yaga and Baba Yaga.

We see this theme of witch trios commonly in folklore and poetry, such as the ones in Shakespeare's "Macbeth", and in Winx Club. Despite Griffin once stating "witches don't work in covens in fear of betraying each other", there are trios of witches all over Winx Club: The Trix and the Ancestral Witches (obviously), Lazuli, Rhody, and Jade (S6 Cloud Tower students), and I'm almost sure lot of witches walk in threes in the comics.

In folklore, Baba Yaga also appears as a donor: a character that tests the hero and provides magical assistance when they succeed.

With our Baba Yaga, she doesn't offer any help to our heroes (yet), but she has tested them as Venomya numerous times with sabotaging their concert.

Baba Yaga has also been described as "a many-faceted figure, capable of inspiring researchers to see her as a Cloud, Moon, Death, Winter...", etc.

She's known as "The Dark Dame" in WOW, and these four things relate to darkness. Clouds cause darkness, it gets dark faster in the wintertime, the moon is only seen at night, when it's dark, and death is always associated with darkness. Baba Yaga even created a veil of darkness to speak to Bloom in WOW 2x13.

In folklore, Baba Yaga is considered "an earth goddess".

This has some relevance to WOW, as she was very territorial of Earth as seen in WOW 2X13.

''In "The Maiden Tsar", a firebird told the protagonist of one story to flee or Baba Yaga would eat him. The bird left with the hero, leaving her with a fistful of its feathers when she tried to grab the bird''.

This one's a stretch, but Bloom has the element of fire, and is the one Baba Yaga chose to reveal her form to first (seemingly first, it's hard to tell if everyone else was present). Nevertheless, she had it out most for Bloom. In folklore, firebirds are red and their feathers glow. Bloom has red hair and her power source, fire, is orange-red and glows. Just as Baba Yaga was trying to stop the firebird she was trying to stop Bloom and her friends.

This next fact doesn't really help prove anything, but fire and earth are complementary elements in a basic, four-section element wheel.

Bloom is fire for obvious reasons, and Baba Yaga is Earth assuming she's an earth goddess or at least related to earth in some way.

In Slavic folklore, she is described as the "Dark Lady of Magic".

As we know, she's called "the Dark Dame" in WOW.

These are just theories, but I can't help but be intrigued by this character.