Who Is Frau Totenkinder? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Frau Totenkinder is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Bellflower, with over 142 comic issue appearances. Totenkinder is one of the magic Fables, in fact she is their leader and through the course of the Fables series she has grown more and more important and her powers have seemed to only increase. In the current Fables story arc, Witches, Frau is making a drastic change.

Who is Frau Totenkinder?

Frau Totenkinder (a pseudonym meaning as much as "Dead Children" or "Child Killer" in German) appears to be one of the oldest of the European Fables. The woman who would become Totenkinder was originally born to and became the shamaness of a tribe of prehistoric people. After an affair with the son of the chief (who was shortly thereafter married the “princess” of another tribe to prevent a inter-tribal war) left her pregnant, she was driven out of the tribe by her ex-lover lest his new in-laws discover that the child she was carrying was his and the war between the two tribes begin again. Totenkinder exacted her revenge by sacrificing her own newborn child to gain power and cursed her ex-lover with boils and warts. She discovered that by sacrificing a child each year, she could gain magical power. By sacrificing two, she could remain ever youthful. Totenkinder lived down through the ages, the witch of many European legends. Helpful to those that were kind to her, vengeful to those that were not.

Key facts

Frau Totenkinder is of human origin and first appeared in "Chapter Three: Blood Tells". The character is published by DC Comics. With 142 recorded issue appearances, Frau Totenkinder ranks among the most featured characters in comics.