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HERNE THE HUNTER

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 372 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HEG-HIG
HERNE THE HUNTER ,. a legendary
huntsman
  who was alleged to haunt Windsor
Great
  Park at night, especially around an aged tree,
long
  known as Herne's oak, said to be nearly 700 years old. This was blown down in 1863, and a
young
  oak was planted by Queen Victoria on the spot. Herne has his French counterpart in the Grand Veneur of
Fontainebleau
 . Mention is made of Herne in The Merry Wives of Windsor and in Harrison
Ainsworth
 's Windsor Castle. Nothing definite is known of the Herne legend. It is suggested that it originated in the life-story of some keeper of the forest; but more probably it is only a variant of the " Wild
Huntsman
 " myth common to folk-
lore
 , which (E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, 4th ed. pp. 361-362) is almost certainly the modern form of a prehistoric
storm
 -myth.


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