Herne the hunter

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Wild Huntsman myths...King Herla (England). The Wild Huntsman (England). The Devil and His Dandy-Dogs (Cornwall). Dando and His Dogs (Cornwall). The Wild Hunt (Netherlands). The Wild Huntsman's Present (Netherlands). The Eternal Huntsman of Wynendael (Netherlands). Wod, the Wild Huntsman (Germany). The Wild Huntsman and the Mine-Monk (Germany). The Night Huntsman at the Udarser Mill (Germany). Löwenberg: The Wild Hunt (Germany). Odin the Hunter (Denmark). Wild Hunt by artist Tom…

Description Sometime a keeper here in Windsor Forest, Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner. You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know The superstitious idle-headed eld Receiv'd, and did deliver to our age, This tale of Herne the Hunter for a truth. — William Shakespeare, The Merry…

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Herne the Hunter flees with Mabel in this illustration by Cruikshank of William Harrison Ainsworth's novel "Windsor Castle."

Churchman's Cigarettes "Legends of Britain" (series of 50 issued in 1936) #17 Herne the Hunter, Windsor

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Kurnous, also called Karnos,[3b] is the god of the hunt and wild places in the Elven Pantheon. All Elves venerate him, for he is the husband of Isha, goddess of nature and fertility, and the father of their race, but none do so more than the Wood Elves, who believe that it is only they that live the existence of which Kurnous would approve.[1a] Kurnous requires that a hunter never kills animals for sport, but slays only ravening beasts or those whose bounty of meat and hide are necessary for…