The Hym whispers poisonous thoughts and easily disguises itself as a god to command Uldaryk to harm himself.

It shies away from the light and relishes in the darkness.

They torment their victims at night, assuming their greatest fears while leeching away their life force.

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To make matters worse, these demons are shapeshifters and are able to catch their careless victims.

They’re certainly creatures you don’t want to mess with.

Yet O’Dimm is a sly creature,adept at exploiting loopholes with wily wordplay.

Witcher 3 The Hym torturing Uldaryk

The castle’s mage had been experimenting with rats and they were accidentally freed during the assault.

As a result, a paralyzed Anabel met a grisly end as she was eaten alive by the rats.

They met a similar fate to poor Anabel, but unlike her, the couple deserved it.

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Geralt isfaced with an impossible decisionconcerning the lives of the children to make it find Ciri.

But such difficult choices are par for the course when you consider who these horrid ladies took inspiration from.

It is clear which one The Witcher 3 writers took note of.

Witcher 3 Geralt speaks to Anabel’s ghost at Fyke Isle

Being both undesired by its mother and buried in a hurry caused the child to become a Botchling.

Geralt is tasked to find Hjalmar to bring him back for the choosing of the next king.

Hjalmar and Odysseus also encounter the same beasts in their adventures, such as sirens and giants.

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In fact, Hjalmar used wax to prevent himself from hearing the sirens, a clear reference to Odysseus.

Thesetypes of wraithsare attracted to locations where violence and misdeeds are regularly done.

There’s a similar entity in Greek mythology called the Keres.

A monster resembling an overgrown infant crawls across the ground on a dark night.

According to Greek myth, the Keres are lured by places of intense violence and death.

Unlike a Penitent, the Keres cannot harm.

Instead, they wait for their victims to die before devouring their corpses.

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They traversed multiple worlds to find her, growing ever more desperate each time she evades their clutches.

In stories, he constantly desires the hero’s wife and wants to kidnap her.

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