The hunt is his and the quarry is not yours to choose
Resonance
Hunters those who live at the edge of the wild
Symbols
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Mythology Summary
Herne the Hunter is the antlered figure of English folklore, a royal huntsman who hangs himself on an oak in Windsor Forest and rides there after death. His earliest record is Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597); the reading of him as an older horned lord of the hunt is a modern (Margaret Murray / Gerald Gardner) synthesis rather than an attested ancient cult, and he belongs to the wood rather than to the court.
Modern Practice
Herne is called on at the start of a hunt or a wilderness passage, and at Samhain when the wild is closest. His practice is to go out into the land on foot and to leave the first kill or the first find.