Halloween Special: The Wild Hunt
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- It's a halloween special AND a miscellaneous myth! Who could ask for more? Today let's dive into a very spooktacular folkloric motif and get real in the spirit of the season!
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Wind: Blows at night
Ancient People: "Must be that demon tornado again"
Those darn demon tornados
I hate those demon tornados
There more like ghost but sure
You say Ancient people but thses days cell phone towers cause disease.
For us it's a badass Snake Eagle Dragon
Me: Wait it’s all odin?
Mythology: 🔫 Always has been
Look everything's odin. Odin or a Greek god in disguise, sometimes both. Best not to ask
Odin lookin sus
Ooops, all Odin!
An abundance of Odins
@@mettatonsagent7541 there is an odin among us!
Jacob Grimm, standing in front of 3 boards covered in photos, ripped out pages, thumbtacks and thread: "IT'S ODIN! IT'S ALWAYS JUST ODIN! ODIN, ALL THE WAY DOWN-"
Wilhelm Grimm who just wanted to talk about Cinderella: "Go to bed, Jake."
not... inaccurate lmao
It’s funny because the brothers Grimm live together their entire lives so this probably definitely did happen
*insert the Pepe Silvia rant but replace it with Odin"
Wilhelm: "Go home Jacob, you're drunk."
"But Wil'm, we live in the same house. I AM home."
the feminine urge to lead an army of ghosts on a dark hunt and give gold to people who give you respect
I couldn’t agree more
I am not female but I still wanna join...
“All roads lead to Odin” has the same energy as “all evolutionary lines lead to crab”
All Wikipedia articles lead to philosophy.
all roads lead to rome, all art tips lead to pinterest.
reject humanity, return to crab
All drains lead to the ocean
Odin riding a crab in Rome.
It's the only way.
"There's ghosts in the sky!"
"It's 3 AM, please go to sleep."
"Ghosts!"
Deep sigh. "Yes, there are sky ghosts, and if you don't pay respects to them by ignoring them and going back to bed you'll dead before sunrise."
"So ma'am, you're saying these ghosts came down and stabbed your husband 47 times with a kitchen knife for not respecting them?"
@@magmat0585 No, I'm saying there were thousands of ghosts going through my house, only 47 of them stabbed my husband xD
@@salvadortoscano2534 Dang it (insert random woman name)! I always say that my friends are coming over on sundays! Also why did you claim that guy is me huh? Are you cheating on me?!
Dead by Dawn?
@@Resistant396 more like...Dead by Arawn!! Amiright??
the domino effect we have from "Odin going on a nightly ride for a wild hunt" to "Harley Quinn is basically a version of Odin" is genuinely something mind blowing to me about this video
It's either Odin... or Loki
Either way just keep them away from the king or you'll be at war by sunrise
I saw this before the video loaded, short to say I’m confused
Time stamp?
@@WinterPains 12:34
It's like turtles: Odin all the way down.
ah yes the pinnacle of femininity: Charging across the Winters night sky at the head of an army of pagan ghosts bringing snow and gold to the worthy.
we love to see a girlboss winning
Note...
Odin both could shapeshift into a woman, was a god of deception and had an elite warrior group of women...
Anyone else wondering if Odin ever actually showed his true form and if he even really was a guy? damn shapshifters of deception
The feminine urge to get cursed by God to lead a ghostly army through the night
The struggle for the use of a bathroom is a story as old as time.
@@craytherlaygaming2852 Odin was gender non-conforming, actually
I swear, "That mysterious and elusive figure? Yeah, that's probably secretly Odin." Is the norse version of "That handsome and kinda magic young man? Yeah, that's probably Zeus's bastard child."
Odin.. or loki....
they both shapeshifted and heck even being a girl wasn't beyond either
"Or an actual god testing your hospitality."
@@anselmareich3549 Odin did this, and they became the story of cinterclouse... norse santa... which is just Odin. Testing mortals
Or more accurately Santa-clause is a fusion of St. Nicolas and Odin.... thats why he's an old man, he has the epitif of allfather which.. I mean could eventually inspire the whole reason that the poem that refrences how 'Santa' is just your parents says he 'looks like your dad' but also seems to say he isn't.
St. Nicholas and Odin.... honestly if there was a myth around them I wouldn't be shocked if they were close friends. And Odin just happened to be some guy who was hanging around.
Dude probably had contingencies for ragnarok
@@craytherlaygaming2852 Sinterklaas as we call him is still celebrated every year in the Netherlands. Basically, children who were good get rewarded and the bad ones taken away. He has an army of servants tainted black by chimneys that are super nimble and acrobatic...
Sound familiar?
@@alastor1052 Ah thank you for telling me the propor spelling. I never knew how it was written, just said.
Wind: A little too loud and wild
Everyone: Weather's haunted
Chronicler: "What?"
Everyone: * Locks door * "Weather's haunted."
Armoury Guard: What?
Knight on five cups of caffeine and -7 hours of sleep: *cocks crossbow* Weather's haunted.
**Wind’s Howling**
Me: *sipping hot chocolate after practicing wind magic from Good Snek Quetzacoatl* I got a little excited, sorry xD
It be ghosts!
The idea of an old pantheon being usurped but still surviving in a creepy and “alien” form gives me a cool idea for a dnd campaign
you wanna share buddy?
Read Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
"We have an E221, I repeat E221, a dead wife haunting her husband on the second marriage, over-"
Gold. Just gold.
I would love an SCP-like Story about professional ghost hunters, who have to deal with such stuff!
its real
If you actually look for it in the list, E221 is the actual ‘code’ for “a dead wife haunting her husband on second marriage”
From the list itself:
“E221. E221. Dead spouse's malevolent return. Usually to protest with survivor because of evil ways.”
There’s also different categories of this, its glorious-
Not just funny, but some pretty cool worldbuilding!
@@derkrischa3720i mean, ghostbusters is an MTF
"King of the Britons!"
"The who?"
"The Britons!"
"Who are the Britons?"
"We all are and I am your king!"
"Well I didn't vote for ya!"
Look, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
"You don't vote for kings!"
@@arminiusofgermania Good one for warriors, though.
Monty python moment
@@arminiusofgermania now if I went around saying I was an emperor all because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me they’d throw me away!!
Literally every single European culture ever: "Scary ghost army probably lead by Odin Oooooooo~"
The Welsh: "Doggos!"
the wellish version is a lot less scary
@@coromo4978 to be fair it's not meant to be scary. After all their job is to lead lost souls to the afterlife.
We’ve got plenty of scary folklore aside from that, though. If you’ve never experienced the beauty of Wales, I’d understand why you couldn’t pin down why we don’t often villainize it. Cymru am byth :)
@@jamiel6005 Cymru am byth brawd. Spread the good word.
Are you implying the continental wild hunt doesn't have doggos?
8:03 "she leaves phantom dogs on the houses of people who don't lock up properly" I just like to imagine that she sees the house is unprotected and leaves a dog to guard it.
I'm surprised she never dropped one at mine...living way out in the boonies as a kid, the door was almost never locked.
@@justafallperson2108 I always thought my parents were weird keeping the door locked cause we lived in the middle of the woods. Thing is some animals are smart enough to open doors
@@limarien6405 True...never thought of that
The idea that the cursed invisible doggo is left behind with kindly intentions is a fascinating story seed
Add the idea that they cause misfortune, it’s probably some fair folk symbolism that the dogs have a moral compass that doesn’t really align with human standards, so they’re bringing “gifts” that humans don’t want.
The idea of old gods taking souls that the Christian god won’t is absolutely awesome, great for any story!
Yeah like it turns out hell isn't real you just get taken in by kindly pagan gods
I can't help but imagine a sort of supermarket location with a bunch of pagan gods beelining it to clearance isle for souls at 70% off.
@@limarien6405 which is what you would want anyway if you weren't christian
@@limarien6405 "kindly" depends on the god. Odin is nice enough, Freya would probably be just a hippie... Hades is definitely a nice dude! Overall neutral, downright charitable sometimes!
God: This bitch sinning! YEET *tosses soul at pagan gods*
Random guy: Hey bro what do you want to eat?
Ghosts: The souls of the innocent
Hunt leader: A bagel
Ghosts: *NO*
Hunt leader: Two bagels
dude look in the osp vine animics. the egyptian gods cover that.
3 bagels! My last offer!
YES
Three Bagels.
Wild hunt pulls into a MacDonalds drive thru:
Damned souls of the Eternal Hunt: MACDONALDS MACDONALDS :DD
Leader: orders one black coffee and rides off
Damned souls: :(
Fun fact: It was considered terrible luck to call a horse white in ancient times, so they were often characterized as grey.
Even more fun fact; Albinism usually has severe consequences in horses. Horses that look white but are called gray were born a different color and have what is literally called a 'graying gene' that causes them to turn white.
please tell me why
@@beetle7710 It was considered very unlucky to call an animal white in ancient times, as white was associated with death and spirits.
@@VirgoArtsOfficial that makes sense. When you die, the blood drains down and leaves you looking paper white.
To this day at least when I was a kid in the 90s my white pony was called a grey because of this fact so it's still at least around if not common
Folktale Cop: I got an LL6 i repeat I have an LL6 Cruel step mother and step sister Bullying they're poor sister
Folktale dispatch: Roger Roger sending a mysterious old lady to give bullied sister blessing
Meanwhile Odin: *knocks out mysterious old lady* "my turn" *shapeshifts into said mysterious old lady*
I love this
More examples please
This sounds like some alternate SCP Foundation that specifically deals in myths and folktales.
Have you read Indexing by Seanan McGuire?
There’s an episode of CaFae Latte that uses this. Then they have an episode featuring Herla and the Wild Hunt.
Me: **howls on a windy night**
Odin: meats back on the menu bois
You: Wasn't prepared for Valhalla yet
all roads lead to orcdin
Right after she said the leader of the hunt is usually riding on a white horse I got a perfume ad with Zendaya riding a white horse in a dress.
This is a sign Zendaya is the leader of the wild hunt.
I got one welcome Zendaya as our Wild Hunt leader
@Moros God Of Doom
No she’s too pretty tho :((
So... is Zendaya Odin? Or a variation of an ancient winter goddess? Or both?
@Moros God Of Doom
No >:( I think she’s doing great
*glances at live action PJ series*
"But not every hunt leader is Odin."
Ad: ASSASSINS CREED VALHALLA
"Ok maybe every hunt leader IS Odin"
That's great.
even if the dog is a bad omen, I would still give them all the hugs and treats, because its not their fault, they are good doggos
All pups are good pups.
You might get along with Barghest. They're my favorite mytho-doggo.
I mean, if they're supposed to be a bad omen and do bad things, that's just them doing their jobs and doing it well, no need to hate, so I agree on giving them all hugs and treats.
They deserve it for working so hard.
dogs, they're not just for xmas...you can have them cold the next day too
All doggos go to heaven
I'm a german person and I think almost every child here in germany knows the story of Frau Holle. But every adaptation or story I red or seen about her ends with that the "good" sister is lead though a gate in the normal world and gold layed all over her and the "bad" sister goes through the same gate but instead of gold she got Pitch and it won't go off
I'm 99% certain the same story got published in Denmark too
I'm not german but yeah what you described is the version I read.
From the Netherlands, yes, that's roughly the story I grew up with. Tar or pitch, something sticky and yucky and staining anyway.
Also I feel there was also something of a warning to not eat the bread of the apples for they have their own curse down the line one way or the other. Maybe that was just my parents going: don't eat other people's food or you might get poisoned.
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I mean it's so common that Goldmarie and Petchmarie are terms that are regularly used to describe whether something is bad.
All Roads Lead to Rome, and All Stories Lead to Odin.
Even Frau Gauden is just Odin crossdressing! XD
But no, for real, she might actually still be a genderbent Odin.
Odin: Wait, it's all Odin?
Odin: **Cocks gun** Always has been
@@Detlaff_Official lmfaoo
WODEN
\(○●○)/ ROMA!!!
Red breaks out the horns and cape. This can only mean one thing.
"This is Halloween
This is Halloween
Halloween
Halloween"
Everybody make a scream!
Red's rundown of "A Nightmare Before Christmas" when?
@@fabiandolch1505 👀
@@fabiandolch1505 y e s
Boys and girls of every age,
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?
Come with us and you will see
This our town of Halloween
THIS IS HALLOWEEN
THIS IS HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN
I just realized that there’s probably a connection to Father Christmas here. Flies through the winter sky, you can hear him coming (bells instead of howling wind), rewards good behaviour, punishes bad behaviour, etc.
Huh, given a fair few Christmas traditions have some very pagan roots, doesn't sound all that strange.
@@josephperez2004It's more like Christmas is 3 pagan holidays in a trench coat wearing a Jesus mask.
Oooh! I want that graphic image!@@daviddaugherty2816
Reindeer are kind of suspicious too in that they are not very Middle Eastern, are they?
He also leaves behind presents in stockings, like how Odin in the first story handed the peasant a gift in a boot. Neat!
I now need an “it was Odin all along” sticker/shirt in the style of “it was Agatha all along”
Mythologically speaking...
Agatha could easily be Odin or Loki in disguise it's kinda their style
Ancient people: "tornadoes are caused by ghosts"
People from Kansas: "is this the afterlife?"
Wizard of oz checks out lol
We’re not in Kansas anymore. (looking out towards the pits of hell)
Kansas might be red Indian mass grave
@@ordhinv.hohenheim5009 Source?
I read the "is this the afterlife" as the "is this the real life" from Bohemian rhapsody.
"If it's a travelling trickster, it's probably Odin."
If he travels in a van and randomly gives u a job,he's probably Odin
If you see a random "attractive" dude wooing you, don't go with him, it's probably Zeus.
Or Hermes... Now I get that part in the Hermes video when Rome think Odin is just Mecury
@@duykhangtran4406 I think that is because Odin valued brains over brawn like Mercury, and he also was a god of magic- that really closed it in on Mercury, I would guess. Like their Northern neighbours I guess the Romans considered magic kinda girly. I think Odin had to beg Freya to teach him seidhr, the Vana magic.
@@definitelynotagenocider5204 If you see a random "attractive" swan wooing you,don't go with him,it's definitely Zeus.
So in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, during the final battle with Eredin when Geralt stab his left eye... that's basically a nod to Odin being the Wild Hunt
I haven’t played it yet
Whoa, that's a really cool detail, intentional or otherwise!
In theory, yes. The Wild Hunt also travels between worlds aboard Naglfar, the dreaded boat made of nails that will ferry hordes of monsters to battle at Ragnarök. Though, it is worth noting that boat carries Loki and the jötunn Hrym, not Odin.
Oh shit! That’s super subtle! I love it
Eredin gets his eye gouged out but doesn't get any awesome, nigh-infinite power over magic and the cosmos like Odin did. That's rough, buddy.
Japanese, Chinese and Korean folklore also have a Wild Hunt - 百鬼夜行 (pronounced ‘hyakki yagyo’, ‘ bai gui ye xing’ and ‘baeggwiyahaeng’ respectively). This phrase is identical in appearance with Japanese kanji and Korean hanja with the Chinese script. It literally means ‘hundred demons wandering in the night’, and was a procession of demons and monsters wandering through the towns, killing everything they can find. Now the phrase also means ‘veritable pandemonium’ or ‘scandalous scene’.
Omg. Have you seen Pom Poko? I love that movie. It's just as good as "Spirited away"
All the raccoons and Danzaburo the Tanuki do their own Hyakki Yagyo but most people are too busy to notice.
It breaks my heart
Is there a demon in any of them that looks like Miss Piggy?
Gegegegege
Modern Historians: wait, it's all Odin?!
Ancient Monks and scholars: *aims crossbow* always has been
Ancient Monks and scholars: the truth is it odin telling us to go to Brazil.
@@starmaker75 kinda fitting having a wild hunt here.
Ahem... A crossbow with 10 bolts on it.
Also the monks and Scholars are just different forms of Odin XD
Red- "Harlequin's start character is Odin".
Even Batman cannot prepare for this...
twist. Harley Quinn is Loki pretending to be an npc with a name that indirectly references Odin to stir some shit....
@The Complicator I’ve never found a consistent story on Harlequin.
@The Complicator its just a joke
Odin is kinda the original "Batman is prepared for anything". Spends years upon years preparing for every possible eventuality to stave off Ragnarok.
And this is where the DC and Marvel cinematic universes tie up
15:26 I like the implication that you can stop a ghost by letting it know it's dead
Sometimes yes, when you do specific rituals to the dead, they stop being a ghost. These rituals also can prevent someone from turning into ghosts.
"Suicide squad happened because of Odin" was not the take i was expecting today but i'm glad it's what i got
Odin whispers into Bruce Timm's ear the concept of Harley Quinn
Did not know that Ghost Rider was connected to the Wild Hunt, learn something new every Friday on this channel
Ever heard the song "ghost riders in the sky?" that's what tipped me off anyway
Oh whoops that was the outro song, prolly should've watched the whole video before replying huh
It makes sense when you think about it
It's mentioned at the beginning of the movie isn't it
@@demonheart13 not exactly, the ghost rider is always portrayed as a lone figure (in the movie, I know that a bunch of ghost riders show up that one time in the comics) and never as a leader of an army of ghosts, and he doesn't fly either
Christians: "It's time to step down Odin, it's Jesus time."
Odin: "It's fine, I have a whole of warriors I can hang around with and mess with people now."
Christians: "Damnit, not again."
Odin is Santa Claus!
Odin: Me and this St, nick guy are gonne give good kids presents on midwinter is that fine
Jesus: sure what ever
Odin: Just as planned
Then I'll call myself Santa and REALLY screw with your believers.
Christmas is the first day of visible movement of the sun on the horizon after winter solstice, why do you think Christian saints, especially Jesus, have halos around their heads or old European churches are aligned to catch the sun rise on their specific Saints day. Christianity is the dun worshipping that has forgotten its pagan roots, Jesus shares his birthday with so many other, mostly forgotten gods,; for example Ra from Egypt was also born on what we in the Gregorian calendar call December 25th.
@@dambrooks7578 But jesus wasn't born in december in early christianity. He was originally born in the spring but christians changed it to december 25th to overtake winter pagan festivals.
As a German, who grew up with Frau Holle and many more Grimm fairytales, this is hilarious to me. I primarily know the wild hunt from the Witcher and other media, but I just realized that I never questioned why the concept appeared familiar. I mean ghostly armies is hardly a rare concept, but I really didn't expect Frau Holle to make an appearance here. Mostly because of the tone I associate the tale with, I guess.
Frau Holle rang a bell for me because I'd encountered her in the 1970s German children's film "Der Zauberstein", aka "Maria d'Oro und Bello Blue" or "Once Upon A Time". I recall the movie flipping from typical fairy-tale stuff into sheer psychedelia when the characters fell into Frau Holle's realm.
Just like Terry Pratchett said: "Old gods do new jobs".
The leader of the wild hunt being a woman does not prevent it from being Odin.
There is plenty of Transvestism, Transgenderism, and, even, Trans-speciesism in Norse Myth; so, I guess, it could still be Oden, or at least Loki :D
Like, Frau Gauden LITERALLY is Odin!
While she was syncretized with the German Frija figures, but her name is already a giveaway that she's the odd one out (Gode is derived from Wode). But her connection to dogs and the "I wanna hunt forever" story are distinctive traits of the Wild Huntsman.
So its just Orthinus then?
@@SuperAmaton pretty much, yeah
Odin put on the gender switch crown he got after defeating Bowser.
I like how being part of the Hunt is often framed as a punishment, but for me, and I'm sure others, it does seem like the perfect afterlife. Riding through the night on a wild hunt sounds perfect
It’s pretty much an eternal road trip with all of your buddies, what’s not to love?
The boot of gold and Christmastime connection reminds me of an old story about St. Nicholas. Apparently, back when he was a bishop instead of a jolly fat man living at the north pole, he saved a tradesmen's daughter from hardship by anonymously throwing a bag of gold through her window. The bag landed in a freshly-washed stocking that had been drying over the fire, which is why we hang stockings on the fireplace at Christmas.
The version I heard was that it was three daughters and therefore three bags of gold. The hardship was also more precise, as the tradesman couldn't afford to get his daughters married or support them he was at least considering selling them into slavery.
St. Nicholas was also one of the Bishops who attended the Nicene council. While he was there he slapped Arius across the face.
I’m only finding this comment now, but there’s a lot of places in Europe where you keep your shoes near the door around Christmas time and get stuff like chocolate and treats. It’s a long tradition from my family we’ve been doing for years, so I can’t help but wonder if it was some old pagan tradition.
Red: I've almost run out of ghost stories.
Japanese folklore: Allow me to introduce myself.
John Greenleaf Whittier`s Supernaturalism of New England: why, hello there
Africa: Heard you needed some help?
Also, The String of Pearls! It's the series of penny dreadfuls where Sweeney Todd first appeared!
I mean she was referring to having run out of iconic horror classics, mostly novels. 😆
But yeah, Asian mythology would have a ton of spooky interesting stuff to offer. Chinese folklore too.
An idea maybe borrow internet’s favorite modern creepy horror sci fi compilation mashup and do a nice little lightning round of some of its most well known entries folkloric basis.
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"Oh no! Exactly what we asked for! This is the worst."
That has the same energy as "if you say your asexual no one will want to date you"
.......like yeah... that's the point...
@@ellendavis9272 Exactly!
I mean, getting turned into a hunting dog maybe wasn't ideal for them though :P
@@Daniel-qt5ib yeah, the dog part makes it a bit of a monkey's paw wish
“O nOe! Exactly what we asked for… this IS the wOrst!”
Lmao
I love Red and her hilarious delivery in these videos. Very funny and sarcastic… one might say, overl-no… just the right amount of sarcastic.
Austrian here.
My mother told me that you usually don't put up laundry to dry on the 12 days of Christmas since the Wild Hunt could get stuck there.
It was also costumary in olden times to leave cups of milk at your door for the Perchten to collect and feed her children with.
imagine trapping an entire army of ghostly hunters just by forgetting to take your laundry inside
@@doubleoof7907 Imagine being an army of ghostly hunters and getting stuck because you weren't looking where you were going and got tangled in someone's laundry.
Red: “I kinda ran out of stuff.”
Headless Horseman: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?!
why's no one talking about this?
I would kill for a sleepy hollow video
Portrait of Dorian Gray joins in
She also mentioned Werewolves at the beginning of the Frankenstein video, so I was kinda expecting them for this years Halloween. However, I still enjoyed this episode bigtime because I really liked learning about all the German folklore!
Same
Dwarf: Here, have a puppy for being such a good wedding guest
King Hurla: That's good
*Finds out it's been 300 years and he cannot get off his horse without dying*
King Hurla: That's bad
That dwarf is a terrible friend
...But on the plus side, free puppy
@@cam4636 My thoughts exactly! It can't be all bad if a free puppy is involved. It's all about looking on the bright side. Silver linings and all that. Given they now ride in the clouds, I imagine they will be seeing a lot of silver linings lol XD
on the other side, it saved him from dying due to it making him eternal. And if he ever wants to die he can just punt the dog and chuck himself off
@@cam4636 that’s good!
The "Oh no, exactly what we asked for... This is... the worst" bit always gets me.
1:05 I NEED a series based on this concept.
I REALLY want to write that but I'm awful at writing-- Maybe I could animate it..
"All roads lead to Odin"
Such an accurate statement in Old European Folklore
I mean, with how much that one eyed man wandered the world, is it any wonder that we can trace everything back to him?
Very impressive for what is basically a huge Magic nerd (no disrespect, nerds are awesome)
It's actually very fitting.
More like all roads lead to perkwunos, and his various cultural iterations, on of which is Odin.
Just western European.
Red: I'Ve almost run out of horror stories
My Brain: THE PHAAAAAANNNNNNTOOOOOM OF THE OPERA
I'd better see her cover the Phantom of the Opera next Halloween now
Try *ELECTION 2020: The Trumpening*
Hunchback of Notre Dame/Notre Dame de Paris would work too.
YES
Of course that's what your brain would say, given that the Phantom of the Opera is there inside your mind.
Given how long ago this was made I doubt you’re gonna see this, but thank you for this video! This inspired me to write a paper for a humanities course examining the pagan influence in the Grimms’ fairy tales. Ended up taking me down a massive rabbit hole following Frau Holle specifically.
As a psych major this was new ground and exceptionally difficult, but it was fun at least!
I don't think i'm ever gonna recover from the whiplash Frau Holle's appearance in this video gave me. There's so much lore!
"Odin's steed Sleipnir is very specifically grey"
Yeah, and has 8 legs, I feel like that might also be mentioned
Reminds me of the first Harry Potter, after they discover Fluffy and Ron is like "I didn't notice a trap door at his feet, I was a little distracted by his 3 heads"
Someone in this thread mentioned, that calling horses white was bad luck. In hungarian, we call white horses "szürke" (meaning grey), and grey horses "deres" (meaning hoarfrosted). I was always just told that that is how they are called, but it may be a remnant of some old superstition.
Also not to mention that Sleipnir is literally Loki’s child that he gave birth to, and gave him as a gift to Odin.
Urban-legend version: Rather than being a band of invisible hunters chasing prey through the night, it's an invisible biker gang!
That sounds like a wicked idea for a TV show.
Dresden Files.
Ghost Riders in the Sky!
HORSE BIKES! Robot horse bikes! Or living bikes made of horse flesh and bones and have a horse head
The biker gang is on a poker run, snagging booze and wenches on their ride through the sky, sometimes dropping platinum poker chips.
The Wild Hunt - an ancient memory of the first Black Friday sale.
Ahahaha!
Milk Tagayuna
You are suggesting that the modern equivalent of loud, chaotic, and often malevolent ghost armies is Black Friday shoppers and I don’t think you’re wrong.
XD
@@mythandmayhem1134 My friend who works retail can confirm.
Yep... Totally Odin's fault
No kidding; I've heard this song countless times before, but you singing Ghost Riders in the Sky actually set chills not only down my back, but my entire body
Have you heard the Johnny Cash version?
It’s particularly haunting
A day inevitably comes when every OSP fan realizes Red's crippling love of "Ex's and Oh's"
"Wait it's all odin?"
"always has been"
Odin to the Convert Norsemen: "You could not live with your own failure, where did that bring you? back to me"
Fun fact: Frau Gauden is believed by some scholars to just be genderbent Odin!
@@cramerfloro5936
And he dare make fun of Loki for playing a milk maid for a while, heh
"But not every hunt leader is Odin"
Gets an ad about Hitler
I got that ad too!
Coincidence? I think not!
@@AbdulGoodLooks Aww hell no!
I did Nazi that coming
Oof...
Red’s depiction of Wild Hunt Odin gives off badass cloaked cowboy vibes and I dig it
My late Uncle used to play Ghost Riders In The Sky when we went camping. Hearing it again sort of broke my heart, but it reminded me of better times, so thank you
Wait so the hound never jumps off the horse? Dude is eternally riding around with a pupper that decides his fate? Wtf dwarf! Thats too much responsibility for a pupper!
Also i always find it funny how these stories forget that this dude needs to use the bathroom at some point, and it don't think he's a skilled enough horse man for that.
Unless getting "cursed" automatically fixes the need for basic life needs like food, water, hygene, toilets, exercise, moving (seriously after a year of riding a horse you have to hurt). Unless specifically stated in the curse like how tantulus explicitly can't eat or drink (I know he's dead but its an example)
@@jasonreed7522 The whole thing is considered a torture for a reason. Well, more than one, you provided a pretty extensive list ^^
@@jasonreed7522 Be that person
Go to a dwarf's wedding
Forever constipated
@@benlubbers4943 why did the dwarf want to torture him though?
@@prophetkat Good question. Could be because fey folks are assholes or maybe the guy was a terrible guest, or maybe he didn't bring the right gifts. I do not know the story. Whatever the case, the fact the Dwarf didn't give a heads up beforehand is a big indicator the dwarf didn't care about, or even purposefully left out warnings of, the time thing.
"It looks like all these stories lead back to Odin." Well, he _was_ titled 'The All-Father', y'know...
i get the feeling harlequin is probably NOT tied to odin, considering france had a HUGE celtic substrate, especially from the insular celts (celts? i could do a whole rant on it but romans werent good at summarizing cultures basically), and what have you, and how, well, those giants dont act a lot like jotnar/germanic giants in their lore
good point
@@medb1996 Well, the Harlequin seems to be tied to Herla, who is from the British Isles. In some versions, Herla and similar beings (like Herne the Hunter) have antlers, similar to Cernunnos, who is also believed to be an influence. Yet, these folkloric figures as we know them today only really started popping up after the Christianization of Britain, long after the Norse and Germanic invasions/migrations (which also occurred in France). So to rule out Odin from being an influence is a bit hasty. The most likely answer is that Odin, Cernunnos, along with other mythological beings and possibly some historical individuals all played a part in the shaping of Harlequin and other folkloric individuals of similar nature.
@@gabrielbastos18 and all this mythological discussion just to understand the etymology of an all-job clown with a rainbow-diamond-onsie and a venetian girlfriend
Atleast he stays mostly in Valhalla and not like zeus u know going after every female ever
Where I live there's actually an ancient custom that is still being practiced that ultimately worships Berchta, or "Frau Percht" as they call her. People basically dress up as scary monsters, basically as Berchta's followers I suppose, and do some dances and chants in the nights after the winter solstice. I will visit a museum about them soon to find out more. But you know what? Without this video I probably would've never taken up interest in that, and would've therefore never found out that this fascinating mythology is being kept alive so close to me. Thank you so much!
3:52 That reminds me how in Mexico some casually say "Tlaloc is mad" when there are thunderstorms (because Tlaloc is the Aztec god of rain); and it's more of like a jokingly way to say "the weather is particularly nasty right now" than actually believing that an Aztec deity is in a bad mood and causing a natural phenomena.
"The amazingly named Erik Bloodaxe"
Red, you sweet summer child, that is only the beginning of amazing Icelandic nicknames.
*Norwegian
Thanks! Now I know where to look for name ideas for my Barbarian in D&D.
Gilius Thunderhead?
@@girv98 well I'm sure there are many cool Norwegian names in old storys of Norwegian viking , this is about iceland , and funny Icelandic viking names , that comment just feels kinda like a wierd butt-in : /
@@dans4129 I don't know what you mean? Erik Bloodaxe was a Norwegian king not an Icelandic one
German Wild Hunt: this useless scraps were gold the whole time!
British Faerie: the gold was useless scraps the whole time!
I want a story with a genre-savvy protagonist and even more genre-savvy fae, and the fae gives the protagonist useless scraps that turn into a different kind of equally useless scraps overnight.
Equivalent exchange, that's how the magical economy stays afloat
@@jbvikingbat5595 a magical economy that is based on things that are easy to transmute like gold don't exist or at least not for very long
@@dragonmanfirebane5078; It’s actually based off of Uranium and Thorium, which are hard to transmute magically but easy to do so through technological methods.
Or it was a throw away joke about magic rewards everyone, seriously people
The Native mythology of Hawaii has something similar to the Wild Hunt with army of ghost warriors that march around the Islands. As always Red has a very nice singing voice!
She mentioned it, and from what I know from a Extra Credits Video about the topic, yours are quite a bit more lethal.
FRAU HOLLE'S STORY IS THE TALKING EGGS! Ok so The Talking Eggs is basically a Southern-Black Cinderella. A girl named Blanche lives with her sister, Rose, and her mother. Rose and the mother love to sit around and make Blanche do all the work, and one day in the middle of summer Blanche is sent to the well for some water. Blanche gets the water and gives it to an old woman. When Blanche gets home, the water is all warm and her mother and sister throw her out. The old woman invites Blanche back to her home and tells her not to laugh at anything she sees. Blanche sees crazy shit like axes fighting in midair, a two-headed cow with corkscrew horns, and technicolor chickens; some chickens have more than two feet, others have just one. SO. The woman gives Blanche chores to do and Blanche does them. She grinds up a single grain of rice and they wind up with a bunch of food, things like that. The woman also takes off her head to comb her hair. That evening, they watch a bunch of rabbits come out and dance. The next morning Blanche is sent to the coop to gather eggs, with instructions to only gather the plain ones, and to leave the gold/silver/jeweled eggs. On her way home she's to throw the eggs over her shoulder. When she does she gets a carriage, nice clothes, and money. When Rose goes to the woman's house, she mocks the woman, laughs at what she sees, plays keepaway with the woman's head, and takes the fancy eggs. When she tosses them over her shoulder, wolves, vermin, and bees come out of the eggs. Blanche takes her new fortune to the city and lives happily ever after.
That's more like the European folktale I've seen in collections. The details are more Grimm-style, the heroine is exploited by evil stepsisters, but it's the same trope
There’s a very similar Hungarian folktale where a girl is being mistreated and does favors for a lot of people and they give her good things in return and her sisters ignores them and so they are cruel to her
This channel talks a lot of shit about Joseph Campbell, but this is one of the things he talks about - lots of cultures have a story like this, all across the world.
Vassalissa the Beautiful and her encounter with Baba Yaga
"Harley Quinn is Odin" was not the information I expected to get but I'll take it
what we learned:
Odin has some unique tastes
That explains why she's so over the Joker.
So, if I ever want to draw Odin, remember to draw him eating puddin. Got it.
Well, if I ever get the DC Harley Quinn / Marvel Loki crossover I secretly want, I now hope it includes the phrase "Not again, *Dad*!"
with all the crossovers, I'm sure they'll eventually do "Harley Quinn - Ghost Rider"
heh, 'harley'
The Old Gods coming by and collecting the souls that God and Big J don't want, and taking those souls to their respective afterlives? Sounds pretty sweet to me.
Honestly, why is that a punishment. "Whatever afterlife you were hoping for... IS THE AFTERLIFE YOU GET! Spooooooooooooky"
I think it’s bc the Norse gods had some sort of fated end. With Christianity, you’re fated to a peaceful afterlife until the end of time.
That’s why I go out at night at scream at the sky to hail Satan so Artemis and her hunt can take me when I leave
@Dragons Wind The idea is that heaven is bliss, perfection, so existing there for eternity is good (especially when the other option is eternal suffering)
Norse-Germanic or Celtic, sign me up!!
It’s just Odin and the boys out on a hunting trip.
The story of the hunter and his boot took me a little by surprise because some Christmas traditions in my country are similar. Our Santa rides a white horse at night and children put out their shoes in hopes of getting a reward (often in the shape of gold foil covered chocolate coins)
A very interesting parallel!
Red: "And then there's Frau Holle..."
Me: "Ain't that the..."
Red: "Yep, the pillow shake snow woman"
Dramatic chipmunk!
I got a book about hessian folklegends (Hessen is the main region Frau Holle comes from. Plus the Grimms came from there and they wrote down the pillow tale among the "German" fairytales. Hmmmmmmmm........)
And there are a variety of legends about her and variations of her character with other names, like Frau Schuckel or Frau Else, who all make the weather, bring fertility to the land, reward good people and lead/participate in the wild hunt
I was also surprised when she started telling that story because I read that as a child and was quite surprised that it might have pagan roots
Well in the modern Version the Sisters just get covered in Gold and Tar(?).
Dont know if thats an improvement.
Good Prononciation on her part.
The Pillar Women!?!
Wild Hunt: comes to China
Sun Wukong: that looks fun
Wild hunt: heeeyyy I think I saw a deer in germany. Want to go back ?
That's the kinda crossover episode I want.
I really, really want to see that crossover
Sun and Odin at the same time: "finally a challenge!"
@@marcopohl4875 OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!!
There's still a tradition of probably pagan origins here where I live. Where people use various horns of animals as horns to make noise, like a procession/ hunt to scare away evil spirits. Same like "Perchten"(plural), which are people dressed in full wooden masks, quite heavy usually, wearing full fur suits, having 2-4 giant cowbells tied around their waist to scare away evil spirits aswell. The twelve days of Christmas are called "Raunächte" here :) The main difference is that the first group is usually made up of young people, feel more like a procession, and it originated as far as I know from our Slavic neighbors. And the other one is a bit more wild like s hunt. The culture is quite intertwined with our neighbors here in Austria.
Oh yeah, here in Hungary, Croatian traditions include 'Saint Barbara' and Hungarians' 'Saint Lucia', who is a white-clad lady hiccuping, who beats/ends you if you do work on her holiday, and gives gifts to children when they were good.
I imagine that the Wild Hunt is made of all of the different leaders of the hunt hanging out together and doing a hunt
Except the hawaiians... They lead their own processions.
Old societies around the world: *A NEVERENDING TORTURE FOR THOSE SOULS UNLUCKY ENOUGH TO BE DRAGGED THROUGH THE NIGHT, ETERNALLY WHAILING THEIR MISERY THROUGHOUT THE DARKENED NIGHT SKY*
Current day: it fucken WIMDY
looks like eight of us got that reference XD
i never fail to say WIMDY now when its wimdy out.
I especially hate the wind sounds in The Forest, super traumatizing for tornado survivors.
You just made me google wimdy and waste 30 minutes laughing at memes.
I don't know if I should thank you or smack you
Even older societies around the world: "Honeeey! Odin's taking the Enhinjar for a ride agaaain!", "Just keep the doors locked dear and they'll leave you alone."
Monte Criste after not being reviewed: I will carry hell to do your doorstep.
Dressed in rich facades
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS and days of DAMNATION
Soon and ever more
I will bring the Chateau D'if, knocking up on your door!
Ah yes, the musical fans and/or theater kids.
Dressed in rich facade
Then I’ll burn you to the ground
Like an angry god
Once you’re in my shining cathedral,
Heed the tolling bell
It’s the final sound you hear
As you descend to hell!
"If there was ever a year to stay indoors"
this is painful, nearly a year later, and still not over the pandemic.
6:10 this is pretty reminiscent of the Hunter’s Nightmare in Bloodborne. The Old Hunters committed a heinous act by killing the Great One Kos and are cursed to eternally hunt restlessly for their crimes against nature.
and nowadays the wild hunt just bothers innocent witchers.
Aight found a witcher reference won't comment one
@@acactus8353 i too was searching for one before making one
Yep also thought of that.
Nice comment 👍
Well, The Witcher bothers Moorcock.
“Dead but hasn’t got the memo” is the best description of ghosts I’ve heard
The terrifying hoard of loud, evil spirits is made of geese. That checks out.
Hearing her sing ghost rider was amazing 11/10 you should become a singer!!
There's a witcher joke here I'm just not clever enough to make it.
winds howling
Wanna play some Gwent?
Hmmm
@@D00000T this is funnier than it has any right to be
What now, you piece of filth?
No one:
Every one of Red’s “scary” characters: *dances cutely, but in a spooky way*
The word is "spoopy".
Holding on to hope that you eventually do The Phantom Of the opera as a Halloween episode.
I'm German, and I wasn't expecting to hear any familiar stories in this video, but when Frau Holle showed up i went "!!!! :D I KNOW HER!!" It was a nice surprise! The fairytale with the girl that I'm familiar with is a slightly different version where rather than having gold come out of her mouth, she just gets showered in gold right before she leaves the magic realm, and the sister gets showered in pitch (as in the black resin polymer stuff). The pitch doesn't wash off, so the sister is just doomed to be covered in what's basically wet tar for the rest of her life. fun
I'd take the frogs over that i think. I could just only open my mouth to eat but that would just get everywhere
Germany: A screaming torrent of tortured souls.
Hawaii: An army of spirit warriors marching across the island.
New England: one headless boi with a pumpkin.
The Headless Horseman seems to be a varient of the Dullahan or Death Carriage myth, a diferent thing from the Faerie Cavalcade/Wild Hunt.
May also be referring to the story and archetype of Stingy Jack
France: a f*cking clown
@@comlitbeta7532 it could always be worse... A mime for example. ;)
@@palehaxan Perhaps in coming over from Ireland, the two myths were combined into a singular entity.
Average Brain: "-but it was me! Dio!"
Galaxy brain: "-but it was me! Odin!"
You thought you were speaking to Odin! But it was me! Loki!
Now the similarity of these names is making me suspicious
Odin brain: “-but it was me! The Spanish Inquisition!”
well Dio is just Odin jumbled up the letters but remove the n.
The remark "must have been the wind" takes on a grander meaning. Quite a testament to humankind where everyone throughout history gets spooked by the freaking wind.
So the "Boot full of gold" thing very much reminds me of "St. Nicholas leaving out candy in children's shoes", and Santa does have Big Odin Energy.
Which also pairs well with all of these wilds-hunt-leaders tied to the winter holidays.
"Wind's Howling."
Yes, Geralt, I know.
Looks like rain.
damn, i had to scroll way too far to find this
Finally a Witcher reference. You would think with a title like the wild hunt there would be Witcher references everywhere.
What now you piece of filth !
@@madtrapper1312 How do you like that silver?
Everyone: "Awwww what a cute pupper"
the night ride: "Are you sure about that?"
I am a simple swiss girl. I didn't realize that in the one story about the two girls you said 'Frau Holle' until you started the story and i was like..."Ouuu! I know that one!"
Props for the pronunciation of Holle's name by the way. You did a great job and i love your Videos!
For anyone curious or just thinking it, I just want to add something about the horses. Red mentioned "...the leader of the hunt typically rides a white horse, but Odin's horse is specifically grey."
In horse terms, this is the same colour. 'White' horses are not born white, they are often born black or chestnut or bay, and will 'go grey' overtime until they can be a snowy white. To most people who aren't around horses, they'd call this a white horse, but it would actually be called a grey horse in correct lingo, especially if translating from another language. This could mean that it is Odin leading these hunts on his 'grey' horse.
There are exceptions to this grey rule, such as extremely diluted cremellos or champagnes, or a few rare cases of paints with no colour, but even then, in horse terms they wouldn't be called a white horse either.
I hear the words “pupper” and “bad omen” and I get very confused.
If she came back the following year to get him from my house I'd be like "you can't have him. His name is Chips and he's family"
The word "pupper" negates all bad omens or fortunes associated.
Hunt be damned I will be keeping him.
You have... the GRIM
@@Trenzalore394 I have the Trayaraus.