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 | | Gabriel Hounds: the flocks of wild-geese high in the air migrating southward in the twilight evenings of autumn, their cry being more audible than the assemblage is visible. |
 | | He had earlier mentioned the Yell Hounds in The White Goddess, Faber 1948, p.88: "The northward migration of wild geese is connected in British legend with the conducting to the icy Northern Hell of the souls of the damned, or of unbaptized infants. |
 | | While the leader of the ghost riders in the sky is male (first Odin, later the Devil), as is he who must go where the wild goose goes, the fetcher of the dead, whether banshee, valkyrie, fury or siren, Isis or Kali, would seem almost always to be female. |
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