Where is the "Huntress" inspired from?

[John Smith]

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[Budoshi]

select her in game then press f1 . its from a russian myth or something.

[FrontlinerDelta]

Eastern Europe it seems.

[Slemig groda]

From this interwiew (http://www.fangoria.com/new/dead-by-daylight-unleashes-the-huntress-in-new-chapter-a-lullaby-for-the-dark-exclusive/): What was the inspiration behind the new Killer?

A: We were inspired by a lot of very cool folklore from Eastern Europe and Russia. So many cool stories are told about people living in the deep forests, cut off from the rest of the world and yet quite solidly rooted in that rich culture. We looked at a lot of legends that had to do with “people that time forgot”, a mix of tradition and wilderness.

The lullaby itself is an old Russian song called “Bayushki bayu”. We wanted to make sure that it felt genuine and we are hoping that some of our Russian players get an extra layer of intensity from childhood memories.

[Maestrike]

I just found a urban legend about a man using a bunny mask or costume that kills anyone who goes through his territory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Man I could not help but think about the huntress, especially when it says he used a hatchet/axe.

[Lemming]

Considering her code name was "The Bear"..