Motif
ominous supernatural sound before calamity
ominous_supernatural_sound_before_calamity
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Animal, Bodily, and Environmental Omens. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
norse
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1163-1296 confidence: high
Odin is known as the Wild Huntsman; people hear the wind as his mounted train with baying hounds, and the Wild Hunt is called Woden's Hunt, the Raging Host, Gabriel's Hounds, or Asgardreia and is a presage of pestilence or war.
The Wild Hunt is treated as a presage of pestilence or war, and hound-baying on a stormy night as a presage of death.
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