μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Wild hunt throws human flesh on persons who see it. This cannot be removed.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Phantom hosts. · view the constellation · filed as E501.18.2

Scholars’ trail — 2 references (open)

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • general Schweda 32
  • general Plischke 72.
Within the index

Filed under Evil effects of meeting wild hunt.

Filed beside it
Wild hunt harmful to certain persons Wild hunt throws horses' feet on persons who see it. This cannot be removed Wild hunt carries person off Wild hunt throws person to ground Sight of wild hunt renders person insane Sight of wild hunt blinds person Sight of wild hunt causes swelling of head Sight of wild hunt causes one to stick axe or knife in foot Sight of wild hunt causes death
Travels with
Effects of wild hunt remedied by asking to partake in booty of hunt. This booty is the same kind as the hunt has already thrown down. (Cf. E501.18.2.) Effects of wild hunt remedied by eating part of flesh thrown down by it. (Cf. E501.18.2.)

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