Women international pilots in Europe are known as witches -- hexe.
A mother witch is assigned to a daughter witch. The Babajaga is a ceremony where the daughter is paired with the mother and must read an oath -- repeated after the mother, in the mother's language. The pairing is carefully done so the daughter does not understand the mother's language ensuring some amusing mispronunciations of the repeated oath.
In the oath the daughter promises to display good airmanship and good sportsmanship, being good to her crew, not dumping water on her fellow competitors etc.
Lisa Turner was adopted by a Bulgarian mother and Lisa Trotter by a Polish mother.
The ceremony proceeds first with the initiate being presented for questions by the onlookers, then the reading of the oath, then the initiate had lipstick applied and had to kiss the "Book of Witches." Then she had to down a shot of Vodka or similar ( a strong potion), mount a broomstick with her "mother" and do a lap around the fire. One initiate fell off, and it was declared an outlanding so they had to do it again.
We had lots of fun. The fire was really good. Michael Conway made butterbeer which he distributed to the assembled witches. We had a nice vegetable and lamb broth -- a witches brew. Later we made an Aussie contribution by cooking damper on some coals removed from the fire.