Phantom Armies of the Night: The Wild Hunt and the Ghostly Processions of the Undead Book

Acknowledgments

Introduction 

Part One

The Hosts of the Night

1 The Good Women Who Roam the Night

2 The Phalanxes of Demons

3 The Troops of the Dead

4 The Phantom Armies

Part Two

The Supernatural Hunters

5 The Diabolical Huntsman

6 The Wild Huntsman

7 The Cursed Hunter

Part Three

The Wild Hunt

8 The Legend of King Herla

9 The Mesnie Hellequin

10 The Evolution of the Legend

11 The Birth of New Legends

12 The Wild Hunt, Masked Men, and Bawdy Fellows

13 The Wild Hunt in Scandinavia

14 The Passage of the Wild Hunt

Part Four

Odin and the Wild Hunt

15 Scholars and the Tradition

16 The Indo-European Roots of the Wild Hunt

17 Two Hypotheses

18 Concluding Thoughts

Appendix 1 For Protection against Spirits of the Night

Appendix 2 The Wild Hunt in Constance

Appendix 3 No One Escapes His Fate

Appendix 4 The Society of the Bone

Appendix 5 The Coach of the Diabolical Hunstman

Appendix 6 The Names of the Wild Hunt and Its Leader

Notes

Bibliography

Index