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Leader of The Wild Hunt

  • Basque Country (Spain): Ehiztari beltza, Mateo-Txistu, Abade-txakurrak.
  • Belarus: King Stakh.
  • Brittany: King Arthur.
  • Catalonia (Spain): Count Arnau (el comte Arnau), a legendary nobleman from Ripollès, who for his rapacious cruelty and lechery is condemned to ride to hounds for eternity while his flesh is devoured by flames. He is the subject of a classic traditional Catalan ballad.
  • England: Woden; Herla, a form of Woden (later de-heathenised as a Brythonic King who stayed too long at a fairy wedding feast and returned to find centuries had passed and the lands populated by Englishmen); Wild Edric, a Saxon rebel; Hereward the Wake; King Arthur; Herne the Hunter; St. Guthlac; Old Nick; Jan Tregeagle, a Cornish lawyer who escaped from Hell and is pursued by the devil's hounds. On Dartmoor, Dewer, Old Crockern or Sir Francis Drake.
  • France: Artus, King Arthur (Brittany); Lord of Gallery (Poitou).
  • Galicia (Spain): the Estadea (from estadear, "to make obstentation"), the only spectre of the company who can speak.
  • Germany: Wodan, Berchtold, Dietrich of Berne, Holda, Perchta, Wildes Gjait. The Squire of Rodenstein and Hans von Hackelberg (both Sabbath-breakers).
  • Guernsey: Herodias (Rides with witches at sea)
  • Ireland: Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna; Manannan—also known as The Fairy Cavalcade.
  • Lombardy (Italy): King Beatrik, la Dona del Zöch (Lombard:the Lady of the Game).
  • Netherlands: Wodan, Gait met de hunties/hondjes (Gait with his dogs), Derk met de hunties/hondjes (Derk with his dogs), Derk met de beer (Derk with his boar/bear), het Glujende peerd (the glowing horse). Ronnekemère, Henske met de hondjes/Hänske mit de hond (Henske with his dogs), Berend van Galen (Beerneken van Galen, Bèrndeken van Geulen, Bommen Berend or Beerneken, the bishop of Münster, Germany).
  • Scandinavia: Odin; King Vold (Denmark); Valdemar Atterdag (Denmark); the witch Guro Rysserova and Sigurdsveinen (Norway).
  • Wales: Arawn or Gwyn ap Nudd, the Welsh god of the Underworld.

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