The wild hunting

drawn by Eugen Gliege

A saga from the old times of the heathen is about a wild hunter. In areas full of forest there goes an eery thing trough the air mostly at night. You can hear noisy voices and in between times yapping of hunting dogs. "The wild hunter" appears on foot sometimes, sometimes by horse and you must stay on the path or duck to the ground when he comes. Then the hunting goes by and doesn`t harm you. Who is too cocky and irritate them this one will not be fine.

So a horse servant was in Priort once who had to do something in the paddock at night that was situated by a cross path. Then a hasty woman went by. She asked him for getting her over the path, because ghosts cannot pass a cross path that easily. As she asked him that despairlyhe did what she wanted. As they got over it she went away hasty as that and became smaller and smaller.

Right after that the wild hunter camewith his dogs and demanded from the shepherd that he should get him over the cross path too, because he had been huntin for that woman for about seven years. If he did not get her during that night she would be released.

Then the shepherd got over him with his dogs.It was not long and the wild hunter came back again and had the woman on his horse.