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How to protect yourself from Hellhounds

According to most legends and myths, when you encounter a hellhound along your way, the creature will most like going to chase and take you down. Hellhounds (also referred as Cerberus) are considered as beasts that takes the form of a very large-sized dog.


Thus, the best way to protect yourself if it happens that you came face-to-face with a hellhound is to run. But not unless you are a demigod who’s got supernatural strength where you can wrestle and choke the beast just like what Hercules did. If you’re not then don’t ever stand and fight because you will eventually lose.

Obviously, your best option to protect yourself against a hellhound is to run. And, the most effective way to do it is to flee across a river. Or, you can also go inside the nearest church. It’s because hellhounds are considered evil, they cannot follow you inside holy places.

You can also run and stay at the middle of a crowd of people. The beast cannot harm any random individuals. It always has a target. Thus, you can use the crowd as your shield.

What if there are no rivers, crowd of people, or churches where you can run to protect yourself against the beast? You only got one option which is to keep running and attempting to escape from the hellhound until sunrise. However, this is only a temporary solution where you better get ready yourself running again when the night comes.

The best way to get yourself a permanent protection against a hellhound chasing you is to get a new name. You have to know that the beast have your name as its target. By changing your name, this will invalidate its warrant and stops the pursuit.

To change your name, this can only be done by getting yourself rechristened or re-baptized.

Hellhounds are Spiritual Entities


In contrast to the description of a hellhound being pertain above where it has a physical form, some ancient cultures refer to these creatures as spiritual entities. This means that when you encounter one, you can rest assured that it won’t hurt you physically but spiritually.


However, seeing one is an extremely rare occurrence. What’s really important to know about being able to see one is that, it is trying to give someone a warning. In most cases, it is warning the person who encounter the hellhound that, his or her death is about to come.

The most terrifying concept about a spiritual hellhound especially from the ancient culture is that, there is really no other way to protect yourself when you see one. Its main objective is to harvest and drag your soul to Hell. The idea where you can fight the entity or even cleverly outrun it is an idea that was just introduced in the modern era.

Moreover, hellhounds according to myths and legends aren’t creatures or entities that can freely roam around where they wanted to go. They have an important duty of guarding the realm of the dead. This means they protect the boundary between the worlds of the living from the dead.

Hellhounds will only leave their post and travel to the living world with a target individual who probably has some serious issues.