The Gift

Baba Yaga pushed Vasilisa out of the hut and through the gate. Then she took one of the skulls, stuck it on the end of a stick, and gave, saying: "Here's a light for your stepmother and her daughters. That's what you came here for, isn't it?" As she approached the gates she was about to throw away the skull, but she heard a muffled voice say: "You must keep me, your stepmother and her daughters have need of me." As she entered, the skull fixed its eyes on them. Its eyes burnt them like fire.