It’s a reference to Baba Yaga! She’s kind of an evil witch, eats children and all that. Lives in a house standing on chicken legs in the woods.
From Wikipedia:
In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being who appears as a deformed and/or ferocious-looking woman. In the folklore record, Baba Yaga usually flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, and dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs.
She’s a staple in old Eastern European folklore, obviously, but she’s also an antagonist in the Hellboy and Fables comics as well as one of the DLCs for one of the newer Tomb Raiders.
Super cool, and some if the old folklore is just wild. There’s a story about how she would break into a man’s house in the middle of the night (on multiple consecutive nights) to count his spoons, and when he tried to stop her, she kidnapped him and then ate him later (or, IIRC, turned him into an inanimate object depending on the version)
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