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(Music: Marcin Przybyłowicz & Percival – Hunt or Be Hunted)
Wild Hunt is a European folk myth involving a ghostly or supernatural group of huntsmen passing in wild pursuit. The hunters may be either elves or fairies or the dead. The myth of the Wild Hunt originally comes from a Scandinavian legend that has become fairly widespread and varied (the leader of the retinue could be Odin, Hecate, Herne the Hunter, etc.) Also this legend is well known to the Witcher fans ✨
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Recent video on the Wild Hunt also mentions Frau Gaude, Frau Holle, and Berchta as other hosts of the Wild Hunt, and those three even have the possibility to be remnants of some long forgotten goddess of winter from a pre-norse era.
Nice painting. I recently took up a interest in the Herne the Hunter legend and doing a bit on my own. I really like how you did the wild hunt scene here. That would be a supernatural sight seeing that coming in the night air around Windsor Castle with a full moon shinning.
In Spain it is called Estadea.
I just imagine them flying through the night shrieking and wailing
And also this legend is well known to Shadow unters fans 
Amazing!
Amazing! 
This looks amazing, especially the tattered clothing and those horses!
Awesome picture!! I am currently working on my piece of a Finnish version of a similar myth
This is actually the best depiction of it i've ever seen 
This is badass, very cool depiction
AMAAAAAZING!!!
have you read hellboy's the wild hunt? i think you'd like it!
This is stunning, you have amazing talent.
As a witcher fan I love it
Hungarians have a cool version of this as well. Transylvanian Hungarians had a beloved prince, Csaba (the myth tells he was the one to settle them down), and from then, when enemies are attacking them, they prey to him to come down on the Milky Way with his ghostly army and protect them. (Additionally, it of course isn't called the Milky Way in Transylvania - that's the Way of Armies, and the stars are actually the footsteps of the ghost soldiers' horses.)
It would not be surprising if this myth would have originated in one of the northeastern Wild Hunt-myths (since there is a proven connection between Celts and Hungarians, they lived here in the Carpathian Basin when we came), but along with many other pagan myths and legends, this one had to get a Christian cover, too. Probably that's why the Hunt became a helping entity summoned by praying, and led by a famous prince instead of a god.
It would not be surprising if this myth would have originated in one of the northeastern Wild Hunt-myths (since there is a proven connection between Celts and Hungarians, they lived here in the Carpathian Basin when we came), but along with many other pagan myths and legends, this one had to get a Christian cover, too. Probably that's why the Hunt became a helping entity summoned by praying, and led by a famous prince instead of a god.
... sinister ... emotive ... really cool ... !
cool
Awesome job!
Awesome piece of artwork. Well done.
I wholeheartedly love your style.
Mark Blackthorn, is that you?
I love the horses!!
This is one of my favorite myths ever!! Love your version of it!
It looks sooo good! ^^
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