hell bride

plural hell brides

1. literaryA female monster or demon; a hag, ogress, harpy or the like.

   Grendel's mother, monstrous hell-bride, brooded on her wrongs.

   1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 42

   2 more examples

   While we moviegoers are nothing but grateful to Gaiman and Avery for their part in bringing us Ms. Jolie as the serpentine and mostly-naked hell-bride, there are scores of scholars out there who're peeved[.]

   2007 November 29, L33T, page 75, column 1

   I knew then, I'd left too late to flee the curse, the harrowing rumours of a hag, a hell-bride, instead of a warrior queen[.]

   2024, Lindy Ryan, Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror, Black Spot Books