The Wild Hunt
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
As midwinter fast approaches, we explore The Wild Hunt; the spectral parade of spirits and souls that hunt across the European skies. We discover the surprising origins, the multiplicity of tales, and much more!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, religious persecution, hunting, animal death, animal attacks, torture, fascism, and infidelity.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | M. |
| 0:05.0 | The Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:32.8 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:36.7 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:37.7 | In this episode 314, it's the pie episode, Julia, the wild hunt. I was like, oh, are we talking |
| 0:44.0 | about pie? Wait, I didn't prepare anything about pie. We are learning about the wild hunt, which |
| 0:48.5 | sounds really fun, but I have no idea what this is specifically. Yeah, so this is really interesting |
| 0:52.6 | because kind of as winter is |
| 0:55.4 | settling in here in the northern hemisphere, I've been thinking of the things that kind of |
| 1:00.5 | remind me of winter in the folkloric sense. And one of the things that I was thinking of was |
| 1:07.1 | the wild hunt. And this is something that is often associated with midwinter, usually around |
| 1:13.0 | November and December, because this is when it's commonly believed that the veil between the living |
| 1:19.8 | and the dead is at its thinnest. And I know you said you don't know a lot about the wild hunt, |
| 1:25.0 | but what is the imagery? What does that, like, phrase kind of |
| 1:28.4 | evoke for you in your mind? Yeah, I'm imagining like a big boar or a stag, you know, or some kind of |
| 1:34.9 | like mythical creature. Maybe it's all white, I don't know, but something to do with like, |
| 1:40.7 | letting go of inhibitions and like going on a big old sort of grand hunt together. |
| 1:46.1 | Maybe the hunt is people. |
| 1:47.5 | I truly, Julia, I have no idea. |
| 1:48.8 | I love when I can kind of surprise you a little bit in these episodes. |
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