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Mike Mignola’sHellboycomics are rich with Lovecraftian monsters , creepy fable , and pearl - chilling folklore . As many movies and cartoons have been made about the various legends in the Dark Horse comic serial , more could still be made every year without operate out of reference material . Between all of the mythical pantheons , fairy traditional knowledge , and cool monsters , it ’s hard to see why the Hellboy television and motion picture catalog is n’t as duncical as Marvel ’s .
Covering all of the folklore from theHellboyuniverse would ask a serial publication of script , but these are some of his most interesting antagonist inspired by faery tales , folklore , and mythology .
Baba Yaga
Those who ’ve seenAnt - man and The Waspmay chuckle over the comparison made between Ghost and Baba Yaga , but Kurt ’s fearfulness in theMarvel movieis well merit . The Russian Wiccan comes from actual folklore , and the terrific supernatural being is either a bloodthirsty villain who might eat someone who fails to meet her demand , or a more grandmotherly ( yet still stern ) donor , or tester , of the submarine , depending on the tale and the region in which its told .
Either fashion , she ’s a unnerving shape who deserves more layers and a lot more sentence in theHellboymovie spotlight , specially since she got more in the comics .
The Crooked Man
In theHellboycomics , the Crooked Man is literally a crooked man sent back to Earth to collect souls by the devil . He ’s drawn rather gruesomely , a stooping being in every way who is testament to artist Richard Corben ’s shivery talents . The caption of the Crooked Man varies from the baby’s room verse of the same name to the urban legend of a demonic mien who is summoned by his name articulate three times , which turn in the person who summoned him , as well as the entire home itself , cursed and doomed .
The being starred in a three - partHellboyminiseries that hire place in the fifties . The whole thing is a creepy affair consummate with sacks of peel and witches .
Ogdru Jahad
In theHellboycomics , Red ’s main adversary is the Ogdru Jahad , which are mostly inspire by the H. P. Lovecraft ’s Cthulhu Mythos " Great Old Ones . " However , they are also ground on Babylonian and Egyptian mythology and folklore . Many of the names of the Ogdru Jahad match up to ancient Babylonian God , and the fact that there are seven god of chaos is parallel to the seven god of fate in Babylon .
The influence of ancient myths does n’t terminate with the Ogdru Jahad . Hellboy has met other entities and divinity from these mythos in the comic serial , including the god Anubis himself .
Gruagach
Fans who ’ve seen theHellboyreboot are already conversant with Gruagach , the wild yet somehow still annoying Irish nance bent grass on revenge in the film . Gruagach of Lough Leane does unleash the Queen of rake during " The Wild Hunt " in the comics , but " gruagach " is just a world-wide Scottish Gaelic terminus for a brownie in folklore .
While brownies are easily offended , they usually clean houses and do chore in exchange for offerings left for them on the fireplace . Even so , they can get mischievous and even violent when insulted . They are n’t changelings who pose tiddler , but they canturn into boggarts .
Hecate
In Greek mythology , Hecate is a goddess with three faces who represents the critical point and witchery . Given her association with colossus , ghosts and hellhounds , it ’s no wonder Mignola prefer her as a prominent character in the comics , mixing her with a gorgon and a Nazi . He first encounters her as an ancient evilness being , but then he goes up against her resurrected form .
In theHellboycomics , Ilsa Haupstein , who was portrayed as Rasputin ’s buff inGuillermo del Toro’soriginal picture show , lay to rest herself into an branding iron maiden so as to become Hecate , and this sentence the being is half - Hydra . This is also the actual monster who predicts Hellboy ’s end of the world .
The Blood Countess
Fans who ’ve watched the animatedHellboy : origin and Ironknow that he faced the Blood Countess , who was based on the real Countess Elizabeth Báthory of Hungary . Báthory is known as the most prolific distaff serial killer whale , as she , according to her own trial , bump off 650 victim , most of whom were unseasoned women . Some historian believe this was mostly a conspiracy , and the tale has grown into legends of vampirism and blood lust attributed to the countess ’s pursuance for aeonian youth .
The film , which key the villain as vampire Erzebet Ondrushko , follow the comic ’s arc fromHellboy : wake up the Devil , which involves the above chronicle featuring Hecate rather than Ondrushko .
Rasputin
Both viewers of the del Toro films and longtime lector of Mignola ’s comics are well - acquainted with Rasputin as one of Hellboy ’s foes , and account buffs already know the story of the Russian mystic Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin . There ’s also a heap of myth woven into Rasputin ’s actual history , including the fact that he had wizardly power .
Historians believe that Rasputin asked that the tsar ’s haemophile Word not be given St. Joseph , which stopped his bleeding , rather than any particular power the man had . Another fable state that he was impossible to assassinate , although autopsies have reveal that he likely easily perished from a unmarried bullet wound .
Kelpie
The Scots legend of the kelpie , or water sawbuck that drags mass down into the depths of the dear body of pee to submerge them , is sport in the Hellboy short , " The Kelpie . " Professor Bruttenholm recounts the news report of how an erstwhile friend was taken out by one of these legend to his espouse Logos .
In the real legend , the kelpy is a shape - shifter who can assume the shape of a cavalry or human , and often appears as an attractive latter form to entice unsuspicious humans to their watery dying . Many waters in Scotland have the legend associated with them in some form , but they seem much friendlier inFantastic Beasts : The Crimes of Grindelwald .
Nimue
Long before anyone heard of Nimue as the origin Queen of theHellboyreboot , she had many other identities in legends and folklore , from the Arthurian enchantress , the Lady of the Lake , to Merlin ’s own love interest as portray in the 1998 Merlin miniseries starring Sam Neil andIsabella Rossellini .
None of the legends render her a rakehell Queen , however . In Mignola ’s comics , she go unrestrained with the powers bestowed upon her by Merlin , alerting her to the Ogdru Jahad , which would mess with anyone ’s genial land . She ’s resurrected as the Morrigan of Irish mythology , which would ’ve made much more sense in the reboot .
The Wild Hunt
The supernatural Wild Hunt has appeared in everything from theDresden Filesbooks to the MTV seriesTeen Wolf , and most of them are much more exciting than the version see in theHellboyreboot . In the comics , it ’s an arc that definitely resemble its big sieve version , but in diachronic lore , it often involves ghosts , Odin or Herne the Hunter , and it ’s such a terrifying affair that people shroud indoors while it ’s happening .
Folklorist Jacob Grimm mixed history with legend when recounting the Wild Hunt , but the story live in Germany , England and many other European area . In some versions , anyone who aids the James Henry Leigh Hunt will be rewarded – or imprecate .
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