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The Wild Hunt: Why Christmas Used to Terrify Europe

For a thousand years, across every culture that endured northern winters, people looked up at the dark December sky and heard the same thing: hoofbeats. Horns. Howling hounds. They called it by different names: Odin's Ride, the Maisnie Hellequin, the Cŵn Annwn but the message was always the same: stay inside, don't look up, and pray they pass you by. In this documentary, we trace the Wild Hunt from the chronicles of medieval monks to the video games of the 21st century. We meet Odin, the one-eyed god who led the dead across Scandinavian skies. We hear the Hounds of Annwn, whose baying grows quieter the closer they come. We follow King Herla, cursed to ride forever because a bloodhound never jumped from its horse. We explore how Christianity transformed a pagan procession into a demonic warning and how the terror of Hellequin became the comedy of Harlequin. We discover echoes of the Wild Hunt in our Christmas traditions, in our modern paganism, and in games like The Witcher 3. The Wild Hunt is the oldest story humanity told about what lives in the darkness above. This is that story, from its ancient roots to its digital rebirth. #folklore #mythology #winterspecial