Magic Monday
Jun. 19th, 2022 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
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Herne
Date: 2022-06-20 12:13 pm (UTC)I would be interested to know if there are any good occultist and/or scholarly sources on the character of Herne the Hunter. He is a spirit that I have felt a strong pull towards for the past 3 years or so. His position within the fragments of late-medieval English folklore makes it unclear to me within which pantheon he would best fit - I have toyed with the idea of assembling a uniquely English Druidical pantheon around him, as he blends so well elements from Cernunnos and Woden.
Re: Herne
Date: 2022-06-20 07:02 pm (UTC)Re: Herne
Date: 2022-06-20 08:50 pm (UTC)Jeremy Harte. 'Herne the Hunter - A Case of Mistaken Identity?'. At the Edge 3 (1996): 27-33.
(http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/At%20The%20Edge%20(Bob%20Trubshaw)/At%20The%20Edge%20-%20No%2003%20-%201996%2009.pdf)
Ronald Hutton. 'The Wild Hunt in the Modern British Imagination'. Folklore 130/2 (2019): 175-191
(https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/145138643/FolkloreWH.pdf)
There's also a discussion of Herne's Oak and the figure of Herne by Jennifer Westwood in Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain (1985): 87-92, although you might need access to a library to get hold of that one by now.
Liz Williams has a brief but interesting look at Herne in the context of contemporary British paganism in her recent and very readable Miracles of Our Own Making (2020): 190-2.
I hope this is helpful.
Owain D.
Re: Herne
Date: 2022-06-20 07:15 pm (UTC)I have several excellent other books by him.
Re: Herne
Date: 2022-06-20 08:48 pm (UTC)