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Hag Overview [1] [2] [3] 

 [2] 
Hags… resemble withered crones, [however] there is nothing mortal about these monstrous creatures, whose forms reflect only the wickedness in their hearts.

Ancient beings with origins in the Feywild, hags are cankers on the mortal world…

All hags possess magical powers, and some… spellcasting. They can alter their forms or curse their foes…


 [4] 
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...

Other Lore[edit]

 Wikipedia  [5] 
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".[6] It is still frequently discussed as if it were a paranormal state.[7]

Many stories about hags seem to have been used to frighten children into being good. The...Peg Powler Icon External Link.svg, for example, was a river hag who...had skin the colour of green pond scum.[8][9][10] 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[11] (a name connected to Grendel),[11][12] Jenny Greenteeth Icon External Link.svg... and Nelly Longarms Icon External Link.svg...[13]

Many tales about hags do not describe them well enough to distinguish between an old woman who knows magic or a supernatural being.[14]


List of Hags[edit]

(8 official and unofficial Hags)

Name Type Subtype Size HP CR (XP) Alignment Habitat Source
Hag Overview Overview Fey, Hag Feywild Monster Manual (5e)
Annis Hag Fey Hag Large 90 6 (2,300) Chaotic Evil Hill, Mountain, Feywild MM5, VGtM
Bheur Hag Fey Hag Medium 91 7 (2,900) Chaotic Evil Arctic, Feywild VGtM, MotM
Dusk Hag Fey Hag Medium 82 6 (2,300) Neutral Evil Eberron Rising from the Last War
Green Hag Fey Hag Medium 82 3 (700) Neutral Evil Forest, Hill, Swamp, Feywild SRD5
Heavenly Sovereign Green Hag Fey Hag Medium 229 11 (7,200) Neutral Evil Feywild, Forest, Hill, Swamp, Wildes Venture Maidens Campaign Guide
Night Hag Fiend Hag Medium 112 5 (1,800) Neutral Evil Feywild, Underworld SRD5
Sea Hag Fey Hag Medium 52 2 (450) Chaotic Evil Coastal, Underwater, Feywild "Varied"

Sources and Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ Wizards RPG Team (6 May 2015). SRD-OGL v5.1. (5e) Wizards of the Coast. Licensed: OGL.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Wizards RPG Team (September 2014). Monster Manual. (5e) Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 978-0786965618. p. 176-177. Licnesed: © Wizards of the Coast (used under 'fair use' clause).
  3. ↑ Habitat (unofficial) - User
  4. ↑ user: Rlyehable
  5. ↑ Wikipedia: Hag (excerpt, accessed 2020-03-24). Licensed: CC-BY-SA
  6. ↑ Ernsting, Michele (2004) "[web.archive.org/web/20041126201638/www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/cultureandhistory/041119vh Hags and nightmares: sleep paralysis and the midnight terrors]" Radio Netherlands
  7. ↑ [paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa112000a.htm The "Old Hag" Syndrome] from About: Paranormal Phenomena
  8. ↑ Ghosts, Helpful and Harmful by Elliott O'Donnell
  9. ↑ Introduction to Folklore by Marian Roalfe Cox
  10. ↑ The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Darlington, in the Bishoprick by William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, 1854
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 The Nineteenth century and after, Volume 68, Leonard Scott Pub. Co., 1910. Page. 556
  12. ↑ A Grammar of the Dialect of Oldham by Karl Georg Schilling, 1906. Page. 17.
  13. ↑ Froud, Brian and Lee, Alan (1978) Faeries. New York, Peacock Press 0-553-01159-6
  14. ↑ K. M. Briggs, The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature, p 66-7 University of Chicago Press, London, 1967
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