Little house on chicken legs

I figured out why Baba Yaga's house has chicken legs.  Ok, I'm guessing.  I sure wish I could find someone who speaks Russian.  There must be somebody who studies folklore who would know the answers on this.

I was skimming a book about household spirits that I found in the library.  It says that there was a Russian tradition that a black rooster must be laid under the entrance when a bath house is built.  Well, that idea seemed to shout at me.  Wow, oh wow, I think there is a message in the story of Baba Yaga, and the messag would have been fairly obvious long ago.

The bath house is where the women gather to spin linen.  They make linen thread in a damp room.  The spinning is associated with magic, and the place where the women wash their hair may be associated with fertility.  Anyway, the bath house is the center of the women's community, and together the women can make decisions the men don't like.

In one fairy tale, the prince rides up to the bath house (Baba Yaga's house) and he commands the house to turn around saying,
     "Little house, why do you face the forest?  Turn and stand as of old.  Turn and face me."

Of course, the prince was on his horse in the road.  So, the bath house can either face the road or the forest.  Hmm.  The road to the outside world -or- the forest of our own land, our inner world??

But the main thing I wanted to say is that the chicken legs on Baba Yaga's house are about apotropaic magic.  The rooster sacrificed during the construction of the bath house keeps everyone in the village safe.  And in the old days, the fact that Baba Yaga's house has chicken legs suggests to me the separate lives of men and women.  Maybe the women decided that the bath house shall face the forest.  And the men decided that it should face the road.  I think the story says that the women sometimes had decision making power in the village.  I'm seeing a portrait of an old agricultural way of life that was not all about patriarchy, and not even all about hierarchy.  Just what I wanted to see.  I hope that I can find supporting evidence!  Hope I am not making it up.