By Charles Hardwick
Bewitched by means of banshees? serious about fairies? Charmed by means of changelings? if that is so, upload this engrossing selection of folks stories from in and round northern England on your analyzing checklist. not just does writer Charles Hardwick current a large number of stories from the sector, yet he additionally explains their origins of the various tales and compares and contrasts them to the same topics present in different cultures.
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Mr. Baring-Gould, in his "Iceland, its Scenes and Sagas," describes this superstition, as he heard it from his advisor Jón, who comparable it to him less than the name of the "yule host. " He says,—"Odin, or Wodin, is the wild huntsman who nightly tears on his white horse over the German and Norwegian forests and moor-sweeps, along with his legion of hell-hounds. a few luckless woodcutter, on a nonetheless evening, is returning during the pine woods; the air is sweet-scented with matchless pine body spray. Overhead the sky is roofed with gray vapour, yet a mist is on the entire land; no longer a valid one of the fir tops; and the guy begins on the click on of a falling cone. without notice his ear catches a far off wail; a moan rolls throughout the interlacing branches; closer and closer comes the sound. there's the winding of a protracted horn waxing louder and louder, the baying of hounds, the rattle of hoofs and paws at the pine tree tops. A blast of wind rolls alongside, the firs bend as withes, and the woodcutter sees the wild huntsman and his rout reeling through in frantic haste.... The wild huntsman chases the wooden spirits, and he's to be visible at cock-crow returning with the little Dryads placing to his saddle-bow by means of their yellow locks. " The personification of the strife of the weather in stormy climate is the following very obvious. because the identify of Odin or different of his precise appellations turned misplaced or corrupted, mysterious personages, or heroes of one other and extra mortal stamp, turned confounded with the spectre huntsman. Herod, the assassin of the Jewish kids, is obviously observed by means of the French peasants of Perigord, after they converse of "La chasse Herode. " This turns out to have resulted from the corruption of Hrôdso (the renowned), one of many titles utilized to Odin. At Blois, the wild hunt is named the "chasse Maccabei," from the next intended connection with it within the Bible:—"Then it occurred that via the entire urban, for the distance virtually of 40 days, there have been noticeable horsemen operating within the air, in fabric of gold, and armed with lances like a band of infantrymen. And troops of horsemen in array, encountering and working one opposed to one other, with shaking of shields and multitudes of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden embellishes and harness of all kinds. Wherefore each guy prayed that that apparition may perhaps flip to sturdy. " (II. Maccabeus, v. 2 to four. ) In Brittany and Picardy the peasants, in the course of surprising storms or whirlwinds, which throw down timber and steeples, are nonetheless within the behavior of crossing themselves, and exclaiming "C'est le juif errant qui passe. " This obviously demonstrates that the mythical tale of the Wandering Jew, the spectre hunt of Odin, and the superstitions linked to the seven whistlers, were confounded or "dovetailed," because it have been, one into the opposite. certainly, in its mixed shape, remnants may possibly but be present in Lancashire. Mr. James Pearson, in a contribution to "Notes and Queries," of September thirtieth, 1871, testifies to this within the following terms:— "THE SEVEN WHISTLERS.