La Chasse-galerie, also known as "The Bewitched Canoe" or "The Flying Canoe", is a popular French-Canadian tale of lumberjacks from camps working around the Gatineau River who make a deal with the dev
La Chasse-galerie by Henri Julien, 1906, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
The Wild Hunt is a folklore motif occurring across various northern, western and eastern European societies, appearing in the religions of the Germanics, Celts, and Slavs. Wild Hunts typically involve
Chasse-galerie
…Canoe", is a popular French-Canadian tale of lumberjacks from camps working around the Gatineau River who make a deal with the devil, a variant of the Wild Hunt. Its best-known version was written by Honoré Beaugrand (1848–1906). It was published in The Century Magazine in August 1892. The story has origins in…
Asgårdsreien [The Wild Hunt of Odin] (1872) by Peter Nicolai Arbo
"Wodan's Wild Hunt" (1882) by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine
Odin continued to hunt in Norse myths. Illustration by August Malmström.
Wistman's Wood in Devon, England