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HA VE GERMAN WILL TRA VEL Sagen DEUTSCHE SAGEN UND LEGENDEN DIE WILDE JAGD / WILD HUNT The Wild Hunt is a European folk mytb involving a ghostly or supematural group ofhuntsmen passing in wild pursuit. The hunters may oe either elves or fairies or the dead,[1] and the leader of the hunt is 2 often a named figure associated with Woden[ ] ( or other reflections of the same god, such as Alemannic Wuodan in Wuotis Heer ("Wuodan~s Army") of Central Switzerland, Swabia etc.), but may variously be a historical or legendary figure like Tbeodoric the Great, the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, the W elsh psychopomp Gwyn ap Nudd, biblical figures such as Herod, Cain, Gabriel or the Devil, or an unidentified lost soul or spirit either The wild hunt: Äsgardsreien (1872) by Peter Nicolai male or female. Arbo Seeing tbe Wild Hunt was thought to presage some catastrophe such as war or plague, or at best the death ofthe one who witnessed it.[3] People encountering the Hunt might also be abducted to the underworld or the fairy kingdom.(41In some instances, it was also believed that people's spirits corild be pulled away during their sleep to join the cavalcade.l5J The concept was developed based on comparative mythology by Jacob Grimm in Deutsche Mythologie ( 183 5) as a folkloristic survival of Germanic pagan tradition, but comparable folk myths are found 2 througbout Nortbem, Western and Central Europe. [ ] Grimm popularised the term Wilde Jagd ("Wild Hunt") for the phenomenon. ------ Comparative evidence and terminology Based on the comparative approach based on German folklore, the phenomenon is often referred to a_s Wilde Jagd (German: "wild hunt/chase") or Wildes Heer (German: "':ild hos~"). I~ Gei:n:1an~, whe~e it was lso known as the "Wild Army" or "Furious Army", its leader was g1ven vanous 1dentlt1es, mcludmg ~odan (or "Woden"), Knecht Ruprecht (cf. Krampus), Berchtold (or Berchta), and Holda (or "Holle"). The Wild Hunt is also known from post-medieval folklore. .

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