Pride Hound

**“** I'm not sure what I snake of that guy.**”**
–Wilson

**“** I can't burn things if they're made of stone!**”**
–Willow

**“** That puppy has too many heads!**”**
–Wolfgang

**“** Pride (Latin: superbia) is considered, on almost every list, the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins: the perversion of the faculties that make humans more like God—dignity and holiness. It is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins. Also known as hubris (from ancient Greek ὕβρις), or futility, it is identified as dangerously corrupt selfishness, the putting of one's own desires, urges, wants, and whims before the welfare of other people.
In even more destructive cases, it is irrationally believing that one is essentially and necessarily better, superior, or more important than others, failing to acknowledge the accomplishments of others, and excessive admiration of the personal image or self (especially forgetting one's own lack of divinity, and refusing to acknowledge one's own limits, faults, or wrongs as a human being).

What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, line 203.
As pride has been labelled the father of all sins, it has been deemed the devil's most prominent trait. C.S. Lewis writes, in Mere Christianity, that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind."[39] Pride is understood to sever the spirit from God, as well as His life-and-grace-giving Presence.[5]

One can be prideful for different reasons. Author Ichabod Spencer states that "[s]piritual pride is the worst kind of pride, if not worst snare of the devil. The heart is particularly deceitful on this one thing."[40] Jonathan Edwards said "[r]emember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility."[41]

In Ancient Athens, hubris was considered one of the greatest crimes and was used to refer to insolent contempt that can cause one to use violence to shame the victim. This sense of hubris could also characterize rape.[42] Aristotle defined hubris as shaming the victim, not because of anything that happened to the committer or might happen to the committer, but merely for the committer's own gratification.[43][44][45] The word's connotation changed somewhat over time, with some additional emphasis towards a gross over-estimation of one's abilities.

The term has been used to analyse and make sense of the actions of contemporary heads of government by Ian Kershaw (1998), Peter Beinart (2010) and in a much more physiological manner by David Owen (2012). In this context the term has been used to describe how certain leaders, when put to positions of immense power, seem to become irrationally self-confident in their own abilities, increasingly reluctant to listen to the advice of others and progressively more impulsive in their actions.[46]

Dante's definition of pride was "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbour".

Pride is associated with more intra-individual negative outcomes and is commonly related to expressions of aggression and hostility (Tangney, 1999). As one might expect, pride is not always associated with high self-esteem but with highly fluctuating or variable self-esteem. Excessive feelings of pride have a tendency to create conflict and sometimes terminating close relationships, which has led it to be understood as one of the few emotions with no clear positive or adaptive functions (Rhodwalt, et al.).[citation needed]

Pride is generally associated with an absence of humility.[47][48][citation needed] It may also be associated with a lack of knowledge. John Gay states that "By ignorance is pride increased; They most assume who know the least."[40]

In accordance with the Sirach's author's wording, the heart of a proud man is "like a partridge in its cage acting as a decoy; like a spy he watches for your weaknesses. He changes good things into evil, he lays his traps. Just as a spark sets coals on fire, the wicked man prepares his snares in order to draw blood. Beware of the wicked man for he is planning evil. He might dishonor you forever." In another chapter, he says that "the acquisitive man is not content with what he has, wicked injustice shrivels the heart."

Benjamin Franklin said "In reality there is, perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history. For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility."[49] Joseph Addison states that "There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride."[50]

The proverb "pride goeth (goes) before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall" (from the biblical Book of Proverbs, 16:18)(or pride goeth before the fall) is thought to sum up the modern use of pride. Pride is also referred to as "pride that blinds," as it often causes a committer of pride to act in foolish ways that belie common sense.[46] In other words, the modern definition may be thought of as, "that pride that goes just before the fall." In his two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler, historian Ian Kershaw uses both 'hubris' and 'nemesis' as titles. The first volume, Hubris,[51] describes Hitler's early life and rise to political power. The second, Nemesis,[52] gives details of Hitler's role in the Second World War, and concludes with his fall and suicide in 1945.

Much of the 10th and part of 11th chapter of the Book of Sirach discusses and advises about pride, hubris, and who is rationally worthy of honor. It goes:

Do not store up resentment against your neighbor, no matter what his offence; do nothing in a fit of anger. Pride is odious to both God and man; injustice is abhorrent to both of them.... Do not reprehend anyone unless you have been first fully informed, consider the case first and thereafter make your reproach. Do not reply before you have listened; do not meddle in the disputes of sinners. My child, do not undertake too many activities. If you keep adding to them, you will not be without reproach; if you run after them, you will not succeed nor will you ever be free, although you try to escape.

— Sirach,10:6–31 and 11:1–10
Jacob Bidermann's medieval miracle play, Cenodoxus, pride is the deadliest of all the sins and leads directly to the damnation of the titulary famed Parisian doctor. In Dante's Divine Comedy, the penitents are burdened with stone slabs on their necks to keep their heads bowed.**”**

–Wendy

**“** REPULSIVE**”**
–WX-78

**“** I've never seen anything like it!**”**
–Wickerbottom

**“** För the löve öf göd please help me, I've been infected by the umlauts.**”**
–Woodie

**“** There are some things you shouldn't be proud of. Like snake hair.**”**
–Maxwell

**“**Reminds me of the gal that gave me immertality!**”**
–E. Gadd

**“**Medusa!**”**
–Wigfrid

**“** Oh shit, a dog!**”**
–Webber

**“** I'm not sure if I'd be willing to put the effort into killing all of those snakes. Are they at least endangered?**”**
–Warbucks

**“**W-wait, Paper doesn't count as wood, right?**”**
–Toad Rescue Squad

**“**Evil.**”**
–Walter

**“** Cool hair!**”**
–Walani

**“** Mmmmm.. Snake bone soup**”**
–Warly

**“** Arrr, some kind o' beautiful siren!**”**
–Woodlegs

**“**AAH AHAAHAA AaaAAAAHHHH (he is trying to pull off the snakes)**”**
–Wilbur

**“** AAAAAAAA, WILBA HATETH SNAKES**”**
–Wilba

**“** Woofer? Hisser?**”**
–Wormwood

**“** Don't mind me, I was just leaving.**”**
–Wheeler

**“** I could use some oil for all of my wonderful contraptions.**”**
–Winona

**“** Think, think, think! It's a snake!**”**
–Wortox

**“**Florp! Florp it all to hell!**”**
–Wurt

**“**lets a use hurlhammers i do not want to a touch that**”**
–Mario

**“**Why can't we just be proud of our base?!**”**
–Huey

**“**Tastes like cottage cheese and lime.**”**
–Shy Bandit

The **Pride Hound** (also known as a **Snake Dog**, or **Dog Snake**) is one of the Seven Deadly Hounds that can spawn from Sinning, and represents Pride. When killed, a Pride Hound will always drop 1 Monster Meat and 1 Hound's Tooth, with a chance to drop 1 Snake or 1 Viper.

Pride Hounds are able to petrify anything made of wood, which includes trees, many base structures, and armor like log suits.

## Tips

* The Pride Hound's petrification ability can be used to the player's advantage, in the case of turning a log suit into a Cobblestone Suit, but it can also be very harmful if the Pride Hound is allowed to petrify something like a boat.

## Trivia

* The Pride Hound has snakes for hair, but dogs don't usually have hair.