The Slavic witch Baba Yaga is a crone and liminal guardian to the Otherworld. Some people in the Goddess movement honor the Triple Goddess of Maiden, Mother, and Crone. ERA's decrepit matriarch is a geneticist known only as the Crone. The diviner in this ritual was called a ', a "blessing crone". Billy Pilgrim was based on Vonnegut's comrade-in-arms Edward R. Crone, Jr. Marzanna may resemble a young woman wearing a garland as well as an old crone. Yackle is a mysterious crone who appears frequently in Elphaba's life. Then Apollo, disguised as an old crone, approached her and raped her again. Rockseia's men wheel in the old crone on a gurney. She put on the guise of a crone. The character of Texas Highway Patrolman Slide is based on then-27-year-old Trooper J. Kenneth Crone. Again, Crone disputes this etymology. He appears when he rushes to the aid of Bazza Rogers (Nason Crone). Instead, they slept in the shack of the kind crone, Nogo Halmi. The Crone (portrayed by Grace Zabriskie).