"Another class of spectres will prove more fruitful for our investigation: they, like the ignes fatui, include unchristened babes, but instead of straggling singly on the earth as fires, they sweep through forest and air in whole companies with a horrible din. This is the widely spread legend of the furious host, the furious hunt, which is of high antiquity, and interweaves itself, now with Gods, and now with heroes. Look where you will, it betrays its connexion with Heathenism."
-Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology Vol 3 Page 918 (Page 78 in source booklet below)
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Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CordesWildeJagd.jpg
https://www.pinterest.ru/pin/519602875758471009/
https://germanitasothala.com/2020/11/29/heilige-julzeit-und-die-wilde-jagd/
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https://archive.org/details/JacobGrimmTeutonicMythologyVol3/page/n77
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