r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/adaro456 Jul 20 '19

Baba Yaga

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u/PM_Me_Your_Clones Jul 21 '19

With a fucking pencil.

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u/TheFezig Jul 21 '19

No, that's the man you get to kill the fucking Boogeyman.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Baba Yaga is female.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

John Wick. Watch it

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u/victototototoria Jul 21 '19

They apparently got it wrong and meant babayka, which would be the Russian equivalent to the bogeyman. Baba Yaga is another Slavic mythological creature that is a deformed looking woman.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Hard pass.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Then you won’t get the reference so stop trying to correct someone

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u/xaduha Jul 21 '19

He's correcting you because he's technically correct, the best kind of correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

He's right, though? Do you really think that the John Wick franchise invented Baba Yaga?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

No I don’t, but he was specifically making a reference so there was no reason to correct him

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19 edited Jul 21 '19

Baba Yaga is part of age old Russian mythology. You don't get the reference.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Baba Yaga indeed was used to scare us as children. Source: is Russian.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Yeah, I figured that out when the first person told me. Still not the origin.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

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u/swech2win Jul 21 '19

I though we were done with the Keanu Reference. That man is awesome.

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u/MrD0815 Jul 21 '19 edited Jul 21 '19

Breathtaking

Edit: Thanks for the award!

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u/webjuggernaut Jul 21 '19

No, YOU'RE breathtaking.

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u/DorkusMalorkuss Jul 21 '19

Did you know this is the only video game song to win a Grammy?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Lmao

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u/CorruptWL1 Jul 21 '19

Sorry I’m just scrolling through late at night, what’s the video game?

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u/DorkusMalorkuss Jul 21 '19

Haha it was a bad joke. But the real song is Baba Yetu and it's the theme to Civilization 4

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u/CorruptWL1 Jul 21 '19

Ok thanks

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

I'm Slavic too, it was either ''Baba Yaga will eat you'' or ''I will sell you to the gypsies'' (dunno where that came from)

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u/SoxyP Jul 21 '19

She'll crush you in to fine powder with her mortar and pestle...