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HERNE THE HUNTER

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 372 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERNE THE See also:HUNTER ,. a legendary See also:huntsman who was alleged to haunt See also:Windsor See also:Great See also:Park at See also:night, especially around an aged See also:tree, See also:long known as Herne's See also:oak, said to be nearly 700 years old. This was blown down in 1863, and a See also:young oak was planted by See also:Queen See also:Victoria on the spot. Herne has his See also:French counterpart in the See also:Grand Veneur of See also:Fontainebleau. Mention is made of Herne in The Merry Wives of Windsor and in See also:Harrison See also:Ainsworth's Windsor See also:Castle. Nothing definite is known of the Herne See also:legend. It is suggested that it originated in the See also:life-See also:story of some keeper of the See also:forest; but more probably it is only a variant of the " See also:Wild Huntsman" myth See also:common to folk-See also:lore, which (E. B. See also:Tylor, See also:Primitive Culture, 4th ed. pp. 361-362) is almost certainly the See also:modern See also:form of a prehistoric See also:storm-myth.

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