Wild Huntsman

noun

1. the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Wild Huntsman¹

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

One of the commonest appearances of this fiend, therefore, is as a huntsman—called the Wild Huntsman.

From Project Gutenberg

Scott's first appearance as an author was in the translation from the German of Burger's Leonore, and "Der Wilde J�ger," or the "Wild Huntsman," ballads of singular wildness and power.

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Now the mountaineer’s girl, remembering Old World peasant tales that never have been told her, hurries indoors at nightfall from the hallooing specter of the Wild Huntsman in the clouds, who is but the anxious leader of the flying wedge.

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When Christianity changed the old gods of the German race into devils and demons, Woden became very naturally the wild huntsman, who was now escorted by men of violence, bloody tyrants, and criminals, often grievously mutilated or altogether headless.

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How exclusively all these descriptions of witches' sabbaths have their origin in the imagination of the deluded women is seen from the fact that they vary consistently with the prevailing notions of those by whom they are entertained; with coarse peasants, the meetings are rude feasts full of obscene enjoyments; with noble knights, they become the rovings of the wild huntsman, or a hellish court under the guise of a Venus' mountain; with ascetic monks and nuns, a subterranean convent filled with vile blasphemies of God and the saints.

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