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	Wild Hunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From the 12th century, there are testimonies from England: In the Peterborough Chronicle, the chronicler attests the Wild Hunt's appearance at the appointment of a disastrous abbot for the monastery.
		This particular Wild Hunt was banished by the intervention of the monks of the monastery and the local nobility.
		The Wild Hunt is known from post-medieval folklore of Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and to a lesser extent Norway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wild_Hunt (1261 words)

	Orkneyjar - The Wild Hunt
		The passage of his hunt, known as Odin's Hunt, the Wild Ride, the Raging Host or Asgardreia, was said to presage misfortune such as pestilence, death or war.
		Orkney had its own variant of the Wild Hunt, in which the fairies, or trows, were, on occasions, seen out on midnight rides, galloping furiously through the air on white horses, or bulwands.
		The Northern Wild Hunt also had a strange connection to dogs in that sometimes after it had passed, it left behind a small fl dog which had to be kept and carefully tended for a full year unless it could be frightened away.
	www.orkneyjar.com /tradition/hunt.htm (1213 words)

	Wild Hunt or Fairy Raed Myth of Europe
		The Wild Hunt (or Wilde Jagd in German) was usually led by the god Odin, or Wotan, who preferred to hunt in the cold winds of autumn or winter.
		Some German legends also have the Wild Hunt led by female deities, and these are the exception to the rule of the spectacle as a fearful omen, as the fields the goddess-led Hunt passed by would double their crops in the next year.
		In England the Hunt's quarry is chiefly a stag of purest white.
	www.ilovewhimsy.com /fairy-lore/wild-hunt.htm (778 words)

	The Wild Hunt
		In some primes, the Hunt is known as a force of evil, the huntsmen being death gods who lost their worship, but did not die, joining the hunt to take out their anger on the world.
		In such places, the hunt is said to be lead by a great monster of a man, with antlers growing from his head, and the hounds of the Hunt are great beasts with eyes of fire, whipped on by the huntsmen.
		Regardless of whether the wizard goes with the Hunt after the chase or not, he or she gains some knowledge of hunting and hunting weapons.
	www.mimir.net /outlands/wildhunt.shtml (3079 words)

	The Wild Hunt
		The Hunt is a spectral force, a merciless hunt that stops for nothing but the killing of the quarry, a dark and clamorous presence carrying spirits of the dead and bringing a doom upon those who unwittingly ride with it - at least, if you read the right legends.
		Sand learned of the Chaos version of the Hunt from Dworkin some time during her childhood, perhaps about the time he gave her the five half-Chaos horses that became the founders of the Hellmares.
		The Hunt is a severe mental and emotional drain on all participants, especially the leaders (i.e., Sand and Julian); this is not helped by the fact that the Hunt is only called when straits are dire and choices are few.
	www.angelfire.com /rpg/lostandfound/wildhunt.htm (550 words)

	NYS DEC Youth hunt for wild turkey
		Eligible hunters are youth 12, 13, 14, or 15 years of age, holding a junior hunting license and a turkey permit.
		The youth hunt is for spring turkey hunting only and is a two day weekend hunt.
		The youth hunt will always precede the start of the regular season by at least 3 days and is available wherever the spring turkey season is open.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/dfwmr/wildlife/guide/youthturk.html (242 words)

	The Wild Hunt or Fairy Raed
		These packs of spectral hounds with their huntsmen are manifestations of the Wild Hunt, which in Germany, too, included the souls of unbaptised babies in the train of 'Frau Bertha', who sometimes accompanied the Wild Huntsman, and which in the Franche Comte was believed to be King Herod pursuing the Holy Innocents.
		The expression Map uses to describe the Wild Hunt, the 'familia Herletbingi', - the household of Herlethingus', is believed to be the result of a misunderstanding.
		hunt for evermore for hunting on a Sunday, or someone who had otherwise achieved fame or notoriety, for example Sir Francis Drake and 'Wild Darrell', the Marcherlands it was Edric the Wild, and in the southeast it was associated with Herne the Hunter.
	www.members.tripod.com /~GeoffBoxell/hunt.htm (960 words)

	Mythological Articles: The Wild Hunt
		Simply put, the Wild Hunt (or wilde Jagd) is a procession of beings led by a spirit who roam through the countryside reveling, hunting, killing or eating everything in their path.
		Instead of saying that the Hunt was led by a spirit of God and featured many other spirits, it began to be said that witches participated in the Hunt and that their leader was either Satan himself or a demonic spirit.
		The Wild Hunt is a popular and very long lasting myth, perhaps arising out of the pre-Christian Pagan religions of Europe, and it is remarkable that it managed to survive being associated with Witchcraft during the witch mania.
	www.geocities.com /pagantheology/myth/wildhunt.html (1167 words)

	The Wild Hunt Timeline
		10/15/2000: The Valley of the Wild Hunt: Ghost Archer teleports the healthy Cat and Red Eagle, the injured Mystic Raven, the mostly frozen Raven of the Fireoak Forest and the captured demon and it's tiny minion to the Valley med center.
		10/15/2000: The Valley of the Wild Hunt: As Ghost Archer entertains his visitors with a fantastic lunch, Raven of the Fireoak Forest encounters her first objects made of wood and is horrified at the destruction of a living tree.
		Near the center of the valley, the core of the Wild Hunt begins to battle the attacking Minutemen and it reinforced by the group's teleporter from the Valley of the Wild Hunt.
	www.the-wild-hunt.org /timeline.html (14875 words)

	Wild Hunt
		The Wild Hunt was a folk myth prevalent in former times across Northern Europe and Great Britain.
		The passage of this hunt was also referred to as Odin's Hunt or Asgardareia.
		Seeing the Wild Hunt was thought to presage some catastrophe such as war or plague.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/Wild_hunt.html (166 words)

	Facts and Figures: The Norse Way
		The Wild Hunt was a popular folklore found in Scandinavian and Germanic myth, as well in later folklore in Britain and northern European countries, which had changed over the centuries.
		In the Norse myths, the original leader of the hunt was the god Odin, known in Germanic myth as Wodan.
		However the height of the Wild Ride falls on the night of midwinter festival, known as Yule (December 21), traditionally the shortest day of the year in Scandinavia and Germany.
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/way.html (2520 words)

	The Wild Hunt
		The Wild Huntsman who led them was at first believed to be the Norse god Odin, in his aspect as God of the Dead, at his psychopompos function of guiding souls to the Underworld.
		The purpose of the Wild Hunt in all its incarnations was essentially the same: to collect the souls of dying or newly-dead sinners and drive them to Hell.
		Connection is sometimes made between the Wild Hunt and the legend of Herne the Hunter, a forest keeper of either Richard II or Henry VIII's time who was charged with poaching and witchcraft, and hung upon an oak in Windsor Forest.
	www.prairienet.org /~almahu/hunt.htm (1213 words)

	Wild Hunt
		The theme of the Wild Hunt is a common one in Europe and America; it combines elements both pagan and Christian, with certain motifs recurrent, such as the Hell Hounds.
		The Wild Hunt is led by a psychopomp--the leader of souls to the Underworld.
		In English legend, the hunt is lead by Herne the Hunter; the history of Herne is that he was supposedly the game warden of Windsor Forest under Edward II; he saved the king from being gored by a stag, and died in the attack.
	www.maryjones.us /jce/wildhunt.html (828 words)

	The wild hunt
		Funeral processions and the Wild Hunt are also connected in a tradition from Dartmoor that the Yell Hounds (short for Gabriel Hounds) favour an ancient track known as the Abbot's Way.
		Apart from thus showing why the Hunt is "Wild", and supporting ideas of ecstatic trance and spirit flight, this clue may lead us to a possible origin of the Wild Hunt.
		Thus the myth of the Wild Hunt seems to be a part of the drama of the turning year, re-enacted by the Berzerks as part of an Odinic cult.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/hunt.htm (2241 words)

	Wild Hunt: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The fundamental premise in all instances is the same: a phantasmal group of huntsmen with the accoutrements of hunting hunting quick summary:
		Hunting is, in its most general sense, the pursuit of a target....
		Seeing the Wild Hunt was thought to presage some catastrophe such as war or plague, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wild_hunt.htm (1378 words)

	Wild turkey hunt spring 2006: Minnesota DNR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wild turkey permit areas and time periods - Applications may be made for only one of the wild turkey permit areas (see map) and only one of the eight time periods.
		Landowner/Tenant Special Drawing: Up to 20 percent of the permits for each wild turkey permit area and time period will be issued by computer selection to applicants who live as landowners or tenants on 40 acres or more of agricultural or grazing land within the wild turkey permit area for which they have applied.
		Wild Turkey Permit Areas are open to hunters who have been issued a license through the preference drawing system or purchased a license for an under-subscribed Wild Turkey Permit Area (WTPA) and time period.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /hunting/turkey/springhunt2006.html (1663 words)

	myriad discussions: January 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Members of the Wild Hunt owe their first and primary allegiance to the Hunt itself, then to each other as blood brothers, and lastly to their families and friends and loved ones.
		The Wild Hunt will only back off of a quarry if the person who has set them after their target calls them off, if the quarry is dead, if the High King countermands the order, or if something else comes up which the Hunt considers more pressing (rare).
		When the Wild Hunt has captured their prey (assuming the prey doesn't drop dead of exhaustion), the quarry is hacked to death with sharpened weapons.
	discuss.myriadmush.net /archives/2005_01.html (3211 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Devon \| Boar hunters retrieve one animal
		The round-up was carried out by hunt members and farmers, at the request of local boar farmer Allan Dedames.
		Before the round-up, a wild boar expert warned of possible "mayhem" if the hunters attempted to track the escaped animals.
		Hunt chairman Dennis Woollacombe said the operation had not been a success but added: "I think it was worth the effort."
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/devon/4581702.stm (454 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Wild Hunt: Vengeance Moon
		The Goddesses called these men the Wild Hunt and bound them to perform any task set them by one who summoned them in the Goddesses' names at the full moon.
		Lady Richenza's Summons is the first in more than 300 years, in a time when the Hunt is all but forgotten, a tale told around the fireside to shorten the long winter nights.
		Each member of the Hunt has his own agenda, his own perspective on the events around him and the task before him, and the tensions that result are at least as absorbing as the main plot.
	www.sfsite.com /09a/wild40.htm (817 words)

	The Wild Hunt in Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The night is pierced by distant hunting horns and the baying of hounds.
		Whichever the case, the Wild Hunt was a dangerous thing to confront or try to escape.
		The Hunt is not under control of the Creator of this universe where all others obey rules, providing a dangerous, unpredictable element to the books.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3080/90885 (510 words)

	Penance, Power, and Pursuit -- On the Trail of the Wild Hunt
		The Wild Hunt, as it is most commonly known, is ancient in origin, an embodiment of the memories of war, agricultural myth, ancestral worship, and royal pastime.
		The hunt is eventually successful (though Meleager, its leader, dies later by the hands of his own mother), leading the hunting party back into the ancient forgotten forests to achieve their twofold goal: killing the boar and remembering the hunting goddess through the ritual performance of her favorite sport.
		Folklore of the Wild Hunt may be derived, in part, from such myths or the memories of their ritual re-enactment.
	www.endicott-studio.com /rdrm/forhunt.html (4565 words)

	Unnatural Predators: Portenders of Death
		Descriptions of the Wild Hunt are broadly the same: the Hunt is preceeded by the sound of baying, barking and shouting.
		Odin was said to prefer the fierce winds of winter in which to hunt and the peasants carefully left the last sheaf of grain to this antecedent of Father Christmas, so he would have something to feed his horse.
		Later versions of the Wild Hunt have the Host led by a nobleman who had been punished for his sins: hunting on a Sunday when he should have been at Church is a common theme.
	www.arkanefx.com /unpred/portender/wildhunt.html (880 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Devon \| Wild boar hunt 'mayhem' warning
		It will certainly attack the dogs and the hunting dogs in this country are not trained to hold a pig at bay.
		About 100 people, including the Dulverton Farmers' Hunt, are using dogs and quad bikes to round-up the remaining animals at one end of a valley, and herd them back to their pens.
		Hunt chairman Dennis Woollacombe, said the operation was a "goodwill gesture" to help get the animals off local farmland.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/devon/4579608.stm (500 words)

	Electrical Apparatus: A wild boar hunt
		Once the dogs are set loose on the path of wild boar in the New Zealand bush country, you wait amid the stony silence.
		It could be hours between the release of the dogs and the moment when they begin barking, an auspicious sign that the dogs are upon the hunted wild boar.
		He was the beneficiary of land inhabited by livestock that had been turned loose and regenerated over the decades after many New Zealanders returned to England to help their families during the economic difficulty of the 1920's.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3726/is_200411/ai_n9464655 (405 words)

	Turkey Grand Slam Hunts - Wild Turkey Hunt and Hunting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The eastern wild turkey is the most abundant and widespread of all the wild turkey subspecies.
		They can be hunted from mid-March until the end of May depending on the state of choice, and habitat type can be varied from southern swamps to forested mountains.
		Tim is currently booking hunts with outfitters in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma that are sure to provide hunters with the kind of Rio hunts they have always dreamed of.
	www.grandslamhunts.com (894 words)

	Wild Hunt
		The Wild Hunt is a supernatural force that sweeps across the land at night.
		The Wild Hunt also appears in Teutonic myth, its leader being Woden or Odin.
		Article "Wild Hunt" created on 31 January 2000; last modified on 31 January 2000 (Revision 1).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/w/wild_hunt.html (108 words)

	Trafford Publishing: The Wild Hunt
		The legend of The Wild Hunt is as old as mankind.
		Every race has its version of The Hunt - the "raging host" of poachers' gangs who drove their quarry by night in defiance of ferociously strict game laws: the penalty for killing a deer was hanging.
		The Wild Hunt tells of a young university woman who inherits a long-abandoned farmhouse which she plans to restore for a summer retreat, only to learn (too late) that it has become the headquarters of a Wild Hunt surviving among the men of a degenerate village.
	www.trafford.com /4dcgi/robots/04-1119.html (573 words)

	Hunt Details at Wild Rose Elk Ranch Ltd
		All permits for hunts including export permit, CFA documentation, private vet certification and Sask Ag permits are included in pricing.
		For the actual hunts we have two locations to serve you better depending on your taste for the hunt.
		All upland birds and waterfowl hunts are non-guided.
	www.wild-roseelkranch.com /welcome/HuntDetails.htm (1726 words)

	Amazon.com: The Wild Hunt, Vengeance Moon: Books: Joceline Foxe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They are called the Wild Hunt: and immortal corps of thirteen men--knights, princes, and commoners--from various places, times, and stations of life.
		When summoned, the Wild Hunt has until the next full moon to fulfill its mission; failure means final, agonizing death in flame.
		I loved the mythology of it, that the men of the Wild Hunt were cursed by goddesses for their earthly misdeeds.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380799111?v=glance (1099 words)

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