Guest Post: Spirits In Motion – The Wild Hunt
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Find out the folkloric background of the Wild Hunt, who leads it, and what might await you if you happen upon it!

For whom it might concern: I wrote a guest article on the Wild Hunt in Central European folklore - one that tries to be a bit more nuanced than “The Wild Huntsman is really Odin in disguise!”.

EDIT: Gah, I thought I had included a link! It should be fixed now.

  • Jürgen HubertOPMEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for this information!

    The way I see it, folk tales are basically a bundle of narrative tropes that can be switched out depending on the needs of the storyteller. So when the Wild Hunt narrative spread across Europe, people always tried to make it relevant to their local region. And in regions where there were still fragments of belief in Odin, it is not surprising that he appeared in one form or another - while in others, the Wild Hunt takes on rather stranger forms.

    Ultimately, their main commonality is the strange noises you can hear in the countryside at night.