12 Facts About Wild Hunt

Wild Hunt is a folklore motif that occurs in the folklore of various northern European cultures.

People encountering the Wild Hunt might be abducted to the underworld or the fairy kingdom.

Concept of the Wild Hunt was first documented by the German folklorist Jacob Grimm, who first published it in his 1835 book Deutsche Mythologie.

Myth of the Wild Hunt has through the ages been modified to accommodate other gods and folk heroes, among them King Arthur and, more recently, in a Dartmoor folk legend, Sir Francis Drake.

In short, engagement with the Wild Hunt is a bid to restore a reciprocity and harmony between humans and nature.

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Wild Hunt is the subject of Transcendental Etude No 8 in C minor, "Wilde Jagd" by Franz Liszt, and appears in Karl Maria von Weber's 1821 opera Der Freischutz and in Arnold Schonberg's oratorio Gurre-Lieder of 1911.

Wild Hunt appears in Marvel Comics, primarily the Thor series, and is led by Malekith the Accursed, the Dark Elf King of Svartalfheim and one of Thor's archenemies.

Wild Hunt was adapted for the Grace Note portion of The Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II anime adaptation with the 4th and 5th episodes where Lord El-Melloi II helps a fellow magus teacher by the name of Wills Pelham Codrington in a case involving his father's home where the leylines have become unstable.

Wild Hunt is a Canadian horror drama film of 2009 by director Alexandre Franchi.

Wild Hunt plays an important role in four of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files novels:, In Butcher's cosmos, Santa Claus and Odin are the same being.

Hunt is featured in CD Projekt Red's 2015 role-playing video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, based on the books, after being referenced heavily during the events and flashbacks of The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

Wild Hunt has been depicted on two different cards in Magic: the Gathering.