]] The Wild Hunt was a folk myth prevalent in former times across Northern, Western and Central Europe.Schön, Ebbe. (2004). Asa-Tors hammare, Gudar och jättar i tro och tradition. Fält & Hässler, Värnamo. ISBN 91-89660-41-2 pp. 201-205. The fundamental premise in all instances is the same: a phantasmal group of huntsmen with the accoutrements of hunting, horses, hounds, etc., in mad pursuit across the skies or along the ground, or just above it.Katharine Briggs, An Encyclopedia of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Brownies, Boogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures, "Wild Hunt", p 437. ISBN 0-394-73467-X It is often a way to explain thunderstorms. The hunters may be the dead, or the fairies (often in folklore connected with the dead).K. M. Briggs, The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature, p 49-50 University of Chicago Press, London, 1967 The hunter may be an unidentified lost soul, a deity

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # TAGS