Day 5- Huntress 🌚🗡 The wild Hunt or the ”terrifying ride” has been recorded in folklore in ancient, medieval and even early europe, especially concentrated in parts of northern europe.
It swept through the forests in midwinter, the coldest, darkest part of the year, when ferocious winds and storms howled over the land.
Anyone who found him- or herself out of doors at night during this time might spot this ghostly group of hunters– or be spotted by them, which might involve being carried away and dropped miles from where the unfortunate person had been taken up, or worse: war, death or plague. Others, practitioners of various forms of magic, joined in it voluntarily, as an intangible part of them (a “soul,” if you like) flew with the cavalcade while their bodies lay in their beds as if sleeping normally. Sometimes, the members of the Hunt entered towns and houses, causing havoc and stealing food and drink.
The hunters may be elves or fairies or the dead. But The leader of The Wild Hunt is more of a mystery. It is sometimes said to be Odin in disguise, a historical figure, an unidentified spirit either male or female, or even the devil himself... _
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This is painting nr.5 for #mabsdrawlloweenclub
Let me know what you think! I got pretty happy with this piece💀🖤
Text source: Wikipedia, Norse-mythology.org