Wild Hunt

That's the one.

He referenced a lot of... factual information in the story so I read I started to read it a little bit because you can find excerpts online and stuff and then I started listening to an audiobook of it and I just they say bossam a lot in it and I laughed and so I was like this isn't I'm not focused enough for this bossom talk but you can definitely tell it was written in the 1700s but I really did I liked the fact that right in the beginning it opens up with immediately like references to Dutch like folk like legends and lore and superstition so Another thing that the headless horseman is pulling from, so not only did that happen, but that gave everybody who saw it flashbacks to, have you ever heard of the wild hunt? We talked about it in our Yule episode.

It makes me think of the picture I've seen painted with the men on horses and their foxes and stuff.

Yes.

foxes, but going after the fox.

Yes.

So it is essentially one night a year, the wild hunt during Yule, where you have, depending on what specifically like you believe in, gods on horses, spectral beings, phantoms, you know, terrifying forces sometimes.

It's Thor.

We shall descend to the world of the unknown and forbidden, down to the depths where the veil of time is lifted, and the supernatural reigns as king.

Come with me and listen to the tale of The Wild Huntsman.

Never heard that sound before.

It's so strange.

Perhaps the horse was frightened by something.

He's going to come right through the camp.

In just a moment, the Hall of Fantasy will present The Wild Huntsman.

And now for our story.

And so the story says that Hurler and his followers were condemned to remain on horseback, travelling endlessly through the countryside because touching the earth would destroy them.

Watermap even connected Hurler's company with the supernatural procession that later became associated with the Wild Hunt, claiming that people had continued seeing the wandering riders for generations.

He wrote that the company was finally reported near the River Wye at Hereford during the first year of Henry II's reign in 1154, after which the strange procession was said to disappear.

King Hurla's story contains several ideas that will continue appearing in fairy traditions for centuries afterwards.

And so the story says that Hurler and his followers were condemned to remain on horseback, travelling endlessly through the countryside because touching the earth would destroy them.

Watermap even connected Hurler's company with the supernatural procession that later became associated with the Wild Hunt, claiming that people had continued seeing the wandering riders for generations.

He wrote that the company was finally reported near the River Wye at Hereford during the first year of Henry II's reign in 1154, after which the strange procession was said to disappear.

King Hurla's story contains several ideas that will continue appearing in fairy traditions for centuries afterwards.

Come with me and listen to the

tale of The Wild Huntsman.

The Wild Huntsman

Never heard that sound before.

It's so strange.

Perhaps the horse was frightened by something.

He's going to come right through the camp.

In just a moment, the Hall of Fantasy will present The Wild Huntsman.

We talked about that.

A wild hunt.

Which it says, one of the most compelling tales associated with Samhain is the Wild Hunt, a spectral stampede led by a god or king associated with death.

The hunt sweeps across the sky, capturing the souls of those unfortunate enough to cross its path.

It is said to be the most active during Samhain due to the thinning of the veil between worlds.