Phantom Armies of the Night Notes 2

Time The Hunt Takes Place

• “Holy Thursday” [Frau Holle]

• Between Christmas and Twelfth-night

• Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

• Ember-night, Wednesday before Christmas

• Folklore motif to signify a change of season or onset of war

• in the 'twelves' about New-year's day

• Not fixed to any particular season, but It occurs frequently and most regularly in the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany

• Odens jagt, Odin’s Hunt – what they call an uproar produced perhaps by seafowl on November and December evenings in Schonen)

• on the night of Christmas eve or New Year's eve

• Some say, he only hunts in the twelve nights from Christmas to Twelfth-day; others, whenever the storm-wind howls

• The hunt lasted for 9 weeks (claim by clerics)

• The season about Epiphany

Names of The Wild Hunt

• Asgardreia (Asgard Ride) (Germany)

• Cain’s Hunt

• Dandy Dogs (Wales)

• Das wütende heer (‘Furious host’. Thuringia, Hesse, Franconia, Swabia) 

• Furious Host

• Gabriel’s Hounds

• Herlathing (England)

• Herod’s Hunt

• Juhlfolket

• Maddening Host

• Mesnée d’Hellequin (France, based on the Norse Hel)

• Nachtjäger(Germany)

• Night huntsman

• Odens jagt, Odin’s Hunt – what they call an uproar produced perhaps by seafowl on November and December evenings in Schonen)

• Raging Host (Germany)

• The Raging Host

• Walhalla (Misspelling of Valhalla/Valholm?)

• Walkyries (Misspelling of Valkyries?)

• Wild Host

• Wilde jagd  (Germany)

• Wildes(Germany)

• Witthendet heer(Germany)

• Wode hunts(Germany)

• Wodejaget(Germany)

• Woden’s Hunt

• Wüthende jagd(Germany)

Individuals Who Form The Party of Hunters or Procession

• Children who had died unbaptized

• Einheriar

• Fairies

• Genius (Sami. A type of spirit)

• Ghosts of drunkards, suicides, and other malefactors, who are often without heads, or otherwise shockingly mutilated

• Ghosts/Spirits

• Juhlafolket [Yule Folk]

• Juhlian Company

• people addicted to hunting

• People pulled into the party unwillingly

• People who astral travel to participate

• people who broke the rest day by hunting on a Sunday

• people who hunted for the pleasure of being cruel

• People who join willingly

• Referred to as Berserkers

• Sitte (Sami. Ghosts)

• Sluagh (Scotland, Cast out evil fairies.)

• Souls of the dead

• Trows/Trolls (Orkney Island)

• Valkyrs

• Will O’ Wisps

Name of Hearing Howling Wind

• De Wode tüt (zieht), Adelung sub v. wüthen (Mecklenburg)

• 'Oden far förbi' (‘Odin fares nearby’).

• Odens jagt, Odin’s Hunt – what they call an uproar produced perhaps by seafowl on November and December evenings in Schonen)

• Odins Wagon

• Wode jaget (“Wodan hunts” Pomerania and Holstein)

Lead Hunter Symbolizes

• A dragon

• The devil

Hounds and Meanings

• Called “The Gabriel Hounds” (England)

• Foreshadowed doom (England)

• Have blood-red ears ( England & Wales)

• Ravens of Odin

• That hearing the baying of a hound on a stormy night is a sign of death

• Wolves of Odin

Horses

• White (Orkney Island)

Prey

• Innocent or guilty young woman

• Boar

• Wild horse

• “white-breasted maidens who were caught and borne away bound only once in seven years”

• Wood nymphs, called Moss Maidens. Believed to represent the autumn leaves torn and tumbled through the air by the wind.

What Protects the Bystander

• Crossroads breaks the carriage

• Drops to the ground (“throws himself in silence on the earth”)

• Jumping over a stream/running water

• Peasants would be sure to leave the last sheaf or bit of grain in their fields as an offering of food for his horse.

• Standing in the middle of the road

• Stepping off-of the road into a tilled field

Feminine Names

• **Venus [NOT Aphrodite]

• *Io

• *Isis

• Abundia

• Artemis

• Baba Yaga

• Berchta
  

• Berhta

• Bertha

• Diana

• Dunkle Großmutter (Dark Grandmother)

• Frau Bercht

• Frau Frekke

• Frau Gauden

• Frau Gaue

• Frau Gôda

• Frau Gode

• Frau Goden

• Frau Guaden [Wodan]

• Frau Holda

• Frau Holla

• Frau Holle

• Frau Percht

• Frau Wôdan

• Frau Wode

• Frekka

• Frigg

• Frigga

• Gauden

• Halja

• Hel

• Helya

• Herodias

• Hlóðyn

• Holda
  

• Holla

• Holle

• Hörsel

• Huld

• Hulda

• Hulder

• Huldra

• Huldre

• Hulle

• Mesnée d’Hellequin 

• Mother Hulda

• Mrs. Odin

• Mrs. Woden
  

• Nerthus

• Nethrus

• Odin’s Wife

• Perchta

• Posterli

• Prechtölterli

• Queen of the Dead

• Queen of the Underworld

• Queen of the Witches

• Queen of Winter

• Sträggele

• Striga Holda

• The Goddess of Death (French)

• The Huldra

• The White Lady

• Tutösel

• Ursul

• Weisse Frau (White Lady)

Masculine Names

• Berchtold (masculine version of white-robed Berhta)

• Berndietrich; Dietrich of Bern (Lusatia and Orlagau)

• Berta

• Bî Wuotunges her

• Cain (bible)

• Charlemagne

• Charles the Great (Lower Hesse)

• Erl King

• Foste

• Frederick Barbarossa (the Holy Roman Emperor in the 12th century)

• Grynn ap Nudd

• Gudan (Westphalia)

• Guôdan (The Longobards)

• Guôdan (Westphalia)

• Hackelbärend

• Hackelberend ( Believed by Grimm to be ‘the most ancient and genuine’ of the Hackel- terms)

• Hackelberg

• Hackelbernd

• Hackelblock

• Hakkelberend (“Mantle-bearer” /Woden)

• Hans von Hackelberg

• Hans von Hackelnberg
  

• Heme

• Herla [a fabled king]

• Herlathing

• Herne the Hunter

• Herus malus

• Holle

• Holt

• Jauloherra “Master of Yule”

• Jol-jäger

• Jólnir “Master of Yule”

• King Arthur

• King Herod

• King Waldemar (Denmark)

• Lord of the Dead

• Odin

• Oðinn (Norse)

• Othinus (Saxo)

• Ouvan (Faröe isles)

• Ouvans (Faröe isles)

• Ouvin (Faröe isles)

• The Great Huntsman of Fontainebleau (le Grand Veneur (la Fantaz'nebleau)

• the squire of Rodenstein

• Tyrannus

• Vôdans (Old High German, OHG)

• Wêda (Frisians)

• Wild Huntsman

• Woatan

• Wod

• Wod (Mecklenburg)

• Wôdan (Anglo-Saxons /Old Saxons/The Longobards)

• Woden

• Wôdunc (Old High German, OHG)

• Wôtan

• Woudan (Westphalia)

• Wüeterich

• Wuodan (Old Saxons)

• Wuotan
  

• Wuotunc

• Wütende heer

• Wüterich