바실리사 - todaysvillain@wiki

• 이름 : 바실리사 (Vasilisa)
• 분류 : 영적인 존재
• 등장 작품 : <Hellboy - The Darkness calls>
• 능력 : 진리를 비출 수 있는 해골 지팡이를 들고 다님
• 특징 : 러시아의 민담에 등장하는 주인공이다.

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바실리사는 러시아의 민담에 등장하는 인물로 헬보이의 조력자로 등장한다.

1. 러시아 민담속의 바실리사

'아름다운 바실리사(Vasilisa the Beautiful)'라는 이름으로 등장한다. 그녀가 등장한 민담의 제목은 '바실리사의 인형' 또는 '아름다운 바실리사 이야기'라고 한다. 바실리사는 원래 상인의 첫 아내가 낳은 외동딸이었다. 바실리사가 여덟살 때 어머니가 세상을 떠났는데, 임종의 자리에서 어머니는 바실리사에게 작은 목각인형을 주고는, 먹을 것과 마실 것을 인형에게 조금씩만 떼 주면, 나중에 그녀가 필요로 할 때 목각인형이 도와줄 거라고 알려주었다.

어머니가 죽자 바실리사는 인형에게 먹을 것과 마실 것을 약간씩 주었고 인형은 바실리사를 편안하게 살게 해 주었다.
얼마 뒤 바실리사의 아버지는 이미 두 딸이 있는 여자와 결혼했고, 이 새어머니는 바실리사를 굉장히 싫어했다. 하지만 바실리사는 인형의 도움을 받아 새어머니가 뭘 시키든지 척척 해낼 수 있었다.

One day the merchant had to embark on a journey. His wife sold the house and moved them all to a gloomy hut by the forest. One day she gave each of the girls a task and put out all the fires except a single candle. Her older daughter then put out the candle, whereupon they sent Vasilisa to fetch light from Baba Yaga's hut. The doll advised her to go, and she went. While she was walking, a mysterious man rode by her in the hours before dawn, dressed in white, riding a white horse whose equipment was all white; then a similar rider in red. She came to a house that stood on chicken legs and was walled by a fence made of human bones. A black rider, like the white and red riders, rode past her, and night fell, whereupon the eye sockets of the skulls became luminous. Vasilisa was too frightened to run away, and so Baba Yaga found her when she arrived in her mortar.

Baba Yaga in her mortar, by Ivan BilibinBaba Yaga said that she must perform tasks to earn the fire, or be killed. For the first task, Vasilisa was to clean the house and yard, cook supper, and pick out black grains and wild peas from a quarter measure of wheat. Baba Yaga left, and Vasilisa cooked, while the doll did everything else. At dawn, the white rider passed; at or before noon, the red. As the black rider rode past, Baba Yaga returned and could complain of nothing. She bade three pairs of disembodied hands seize the grain to grind it, and set Vasilisa the same tasks for the next day, with the addition of cleaning poppy seeds that had been mixed with dirt. Again, the doll did everything but cook the meal. Baba Yaga set the three pairs of hands to press the oil from the poppy seeds.

Vasilisa asked about the riders' identities and was told that the white one was Day, the red one the Sun, and the black one Night. Other details are not explained, on the grounds that Baba Yaga preferred to keep them secret. In return, Baba Yaga inquired into the cause of Vasilisa's success. On hearing the answer "by my mother's blessing", Baba Yaga sends Vasilisa home with a skull-lantern to provide light for her step-family, only to find that, since sending her out on her task, no candles or fire will light in their home. Even lamps and candles brought in from outside snuff out the second they are carried over the threshold. The light burns Vasilisa's stepmother and stepsisters to ashes, and Vasilisa buries the skull as per its instructions so no person would ever be harmed by it.

Later, Vasilisa becomes an assistant to a maker of cloth in Russia's capital city, where she becomes so skilled at her work that the czar himself notices her skill; he later marries Vasilisa.

2. 헬보이 시리즈의 바실리사