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Revision as of 14:18, 24 March 2020

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Hag Overview 
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A hag, or "the Old Hag"... According to folklore, the Old Hag sat on a sleeper's chest and sent nightmares to him or her. When the subject awoke, he or she would be unable to breathe or even move for a short period of time... the subject had been "hagridden".[2] It is still frequently discussed as if it were a paranormal state.[3]

Many stories about hags seem to have been used to frighten children into being good. The...Peg Powler , for example, was a river hag who...had skin the colour of green pond scum.[4][5][6] Parents who wanted to keep their children away from the river's edge told them that if they got too close to the water she would pull them in with her long arms, drown them, and sometimes eat them. This type of nixie or neck has other regional names, such as Grindylow[7] (a name connected to Grendel),[7][8] Jenny Greenteeth ... and Nelly Longarms ...[9]

Many tales about hags do not describe them well enough to distinguish between an old woman who knows magic or a supernatural being.[10]


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In 5th edition most hags are fey, although at least one is a fiend. All hags are evil.


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When hags must work together, they form covens, in spite of their selfish natures...

Shared Spellcasting. While all three members of a hag coven are within 30 feet of one another, they can each cast...spells from the wizard's spell...share[ing] the spell slots among themselves...

Hag Eye. A hag coven can craft a magic item called a hag eye... The hag eye is usually entrusted to a minion... A hag in the coven can take an action to see what the hag eye sees...

List of Hags

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Monster Size Type Tags Alignment HP CR Habitat Marked Source

Sources and Notes

  1. Wikipedia: Hag (excerpt, accessed 2020-03-24). Licensed: CC-BY-SA ↑
  2. Ernsting, Michele (2004) "Hags and nightmares: sleep paralysis and the midnight terrors" Radio Netherlands ↑
  3. The "Old Hag" Syndrome from About: Paranormal Phenomena ↑
  4. Ghosts, Helpful and Harmful by Elliott O'Donnell ↑
  5. Introduction to Folklore by Marian Roalfe Cox ↑
  6. The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Darlington, in the Bishoprick by William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, 1854 ↑
  7. The Nineteenth century and after, Volume 68, Leonard Scott Pub. Co., 1910. Page. 556 ↑ 7.0 7.1
  8. A Grammar of the Dialect of Oldham by Karl Georg Schilling, 1906. Page. 17. ↑
  9. Froud, Brian and Lee, Alan (1978) Faeries. New York, Peacock Press 0-553-01159-6 ↑
  10. K. M. Briggs, The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature, p 66-7 University of Chicago Press, London, 1967 ↑
  11. user: Rlyehable ↑
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