Hexenbiester

 refers to a race of supernatural creatures featured on the NBC television series Grimm. They are a subspecies of Wesen. Hexenbiester are witch-like creatures with monstrous features.

Adalind Schade
Adalind Schade was a lawyer who worked for a prestigious law firm in Portland, Oregon. As a Hexenbiest, she had an arrangement with the captain of the Portland Police Bureau, Sean Renard.

When one of Captain Renard's homicide detectives, Nick Burkhardt, awakened to the calling of being a Grimm, his newfound abilities enabled him to see Adalind in her true form. Adalind was the first Wesen that Nick took note of and he first saw her when she was crossing the street near a jewelry store that he was visiting.

Captain Renard became aware that Nick was a Grimm and feared that his skills might pose a problem for himself and other Wesen. He instructed Adalind to assassinate Nick's ailing aunt, Marie Kessler - a Grimm herself. Adalind infiltrated the Spruce Medical Center as a doctor and entered the intensive care unit where Kessler had been admitted following an attack by a Hässlich. She tried to inject the comatose Marie with spider toxin, but Nick stopped her, forcing her to leave the scene. She reported her failure back to Captain Renard.

Notes & Trivia

 * The singular form of the race is called Hexenbiest.


 * The term Hexenbiest is of German origin and literally translates to Witchbeast.


 * Pronounced HEK-sən-beest; pl: -biester Germ. Hexe "witch" + Biest "beast