Madame Pamita
Madame Pamita's new book 'Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft' was released just after Russia's invasion of Ukraine — 'exactly at the time that it was so needed,' she said
(RNS) — When Madame Pamita was little, her mother told her stories about her Ukrainian grandmother — how she would pour wax into water to heal the sick; how once when Madame Pamita’s mother was very sick, her grandmother made a doll for her to hold, which disappeared after she got well.
Those stories became little mysteries for Madame Pamita. The clues to unlock her grandmother’s magic were hard to find — while she considers herself a witch as well as a member of the Ukrainian diaspora, Madame Pamita doesn’t read or speak Ukrainian, and she says that little about Ukrainian folk magic was written or preserved during the Soviet era.
Then she stumbled on a book about Ukrainian wax-pouring healing at a friend’s bookstore. It was like “opening the Cave of Wonders,” she said.
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Madame Pamita spoke to Religion News Service about Baba Yaga, traditional Slavic magic and how the author is using her magic to support the people of Ukraine amid Russia’s continuing invasion of the country.
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