Beelzebub is a fictional character appearing in Disney-related media. He first appeared in the 1952 Donald Duck cartoon Trick or Treat, where he helps Huey, Dewey, and Louie get candy from Donald.
Background[]
Personality[]
Beelzebub is a living broom and Witch Hazel’s companion. He helped her to help Huey, Dewey, and Louie get candy from Donald, who played a trick on the boys.
Beelzebub is willing to attack people who Witch Hazel doesn’t like. He goes anywhere she does as her loyal companion.
Powers and abilities[]
Beelzebub is able to walk and fly by himself, despite being a broom.
Appearances[]
Trick or Treat[]
Beelzebub in his original appearance.
Beelzebub first appears being rode on by Witch Hazel , as she is scaring animals on Halloween. After he and Hazel are scare by a Jack-o-lantern, She then sees Huey, Dewey, and Louie, dressed up for Trick-or-treating. When the triplets are given a mean trick from their Uncle Donald, he helps Hazel to get them some candy.
After Hazel and the boys brew a magic potion for their plan, he flies them all back to Donald’s house. Donald swallows the key to his pantry after Hazel calls him a pigeon. Beelzebub hold Donald up by his shirt, so Hazel can use her potion on him. The potion makes Donald dance and mimic the sounds of a drum, with Hazel playing Beelzebub as a guitar. When Donald slides the key under the pantry door, after spitting it up, Hazel uses more of the potion to make him run into the door.
Beelzebub, along with Hazel, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, stand on the porch with the front door open to watch Donald collide with the pantry; Beelzebub is startled by the sound this makes, hiding behind the boys for a moment after the collision. With Donald unconscious, Beelzebub sweeps up the treats for Huey, Dewey, and Louie. When Donald wakes up, Beelzebub bonks him on the head, knocking him out again. Done with the job and the Halloween night coming to an end, Beelzebub flies Hazel off into the night.
The Mouse Factory[]
In the episode "Spooks and Magic", a live action Witch Hazel, along with Witch Goofy and King Louie (called Martha) helped Phyllis Diller with cooking the brew in the kitchen before going out to fly on their brooms, with Witch Hazel being told to fly over to the area where Donald lives (prompting the cartoon Trick or Treat). Hazel was also among the characters that Phyllis turned Snow White into.
Mickey and Friends: Trick or Treats[]
Beelzebub as he appears in Mickey and Friends: Trick or Treats
In the 2023 musical stop-motion special, Beelzebub with Witch Hazel, as she becomes annoyed at Mickey and Friends trick or treating at her home. She decides to transform Mickey and the gang into real monsters based off their Halloween costumes (though Daisy was dressed as a princess instead of a monster like her friends). Mickey and his friends try to get her spell book and find the ingredients for the spell to revert things back in order to transform back to normal. Eventually she decides to transform Mickey and his friends back to normal after realizing how lonely she gets around Halloween and invites the gang to her Halloween party inside her home.
Comics[]
Italian comics[]
After few stories with Donald in 1950 (Il dottor Paperus, parody of Goethe's Faust) and 1952 (Paperino e l'aspirapolvere fatato), Hazel has become a very popular character In Italy - where the character is known as Nocciola (full name Nocciola Vildibranda Crapomena, born in The Witch Country in 817BCE) - thanks to the cartoonist Luciano Bottaro and the writer Carlo Chiedi. Beelzebub would most often appear with her.
Starting from the 1960 Bottaro-Chiedi's story Pippo e la fattucchiera (Goofy and the sorceress), Italian comic authors have developed Hazel as a sorceress sending from the Witch Country to restore the faith in magic among the normal people, especially Goofy! Unfortunately for the witch, Goofy absolutely refuses to recognize that magic is real, believing instead that real magic is the same as regular trick magic, and that those claiming to be magicians (including Hazel) are crazy. This leads to several amusing adventures where Hazel uses every spell in the book to try to convince Goofy of the existence of "real" magic, despite continued failure.
Hazel's Italian cycle of stories has ended in 2005 with Pippo e la corona delle streghe (Goofy and the Witches Crown, written and illustrated by Bottaro), where Goofy finally signed a declaration where he recognizes Hazel as a witch. But after Hazel's departure, he shows his true feeling saying "At the last, small actions make the people happy... Like the lovely old Hazel, who thinks to be a witch".
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Trivia[]
- Beelzebub gets his name from a Philistine god. In some Abrahamic religions he is described as a major demon. In Christian theology, Beelzebub is another name for Satan.