>>20799887We see something very similar in European traditions related to the Wild Hunt. In Celtic and Germanic traditions, the Wild Hunt is a horde of ghostly specters that cross the night led by the King of the Wild Hunt as Odin or Herne, the Horned God as Cernunnos, who blows a horn as if calling the spirits and announcing the subversion of the current order.
According to tradition, the Wild Hunt took place between the beginning of the Celtic year, around the beginning of November (the Neo-Pagan "Samhain" festival) and the Winter Solstice, which corresponded to the "Jul" or "Yule" festival. of the Nordic peoples. This was a time of year traditionally associated with an increase in paranormal activity, temporarily undoing the "veil" that separates the two worlds, material and spiritual (or chthonic). The Wild Hunt is associated, in this way, with a time between times and a space between spaces (interstice), that space and time that are neither space nor time, neither light nor darkness, neither life nor death, neither sleep nor waking, but both and neither at the same time – the primordial Chaos, in which the Order of the universe is temporarily suspended and returns to the "Golden Age" ruled by Saturn, the Black God.
It is not without reason that the Devil always appears at crossroads, since at the crossroads, in the place where the paths cross, we are in a space that is neither one path nor the other, but is both and neither at the same time. This is one of the theoretical foundations of the Wild Hunt according to ancient and modern traditions of Witchcraft. The clear association between the Wild Hunt and the Witches' Sabbat is also undeniable, but with a fundamental difference: while the first is an incursion of the world of the dead into the world of the living, the second is celebrated in a space and time beyond the world of the living.
