--- title: Legends and Tales., part 12 — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · full text with trees description: Legends and Tales., part 12, «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Wild Huntsman. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / Legends and Tales., part 12 # Legends and Tales., part 12 Legends and Tales., part 12 of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder: the whole text, 100 sentences and 2546 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/13/page/2/) The Wild Huntsman.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Earl Eberhard von Wurtemberg rode one day alone into the forest to amuse himself with the chase.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") Suddenly he heard a loud roar and noise, as of a hunter riding furiously past; he was terrified, dismounted in haste from his horse, and approaching a tree, as if for defence, cried aloud to the imagined huntsman, asking if he intended violence.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") "No," replied the now visible form of the hunter, "I am a man like thyself, and stand before thee quite alone.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") I too was formerly a noble.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") "I found such pleasure in the chase, that I besought God to permit me to hunt until the judgment-day.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") Unhappily my sinful wish was granted, and for four hundred and fifty years I have hunted the same deer.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") But my race and name are known to no one."[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Thereupon the ghostly hunter vanished.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Hans von Hackelberg, a master of the hunt in Brunswick, had an unhappy dream one night on the Harzburg; it seemed to him in his dream as if he struggled with a huge wild boar which conquered him after a long combat, and that he died of his wounds.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") He could not drive this terrible dream from his mind.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") Shortly after he encountered a boar in the Harz similar to the one in his dream.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") He attacked him; the struggle remained long undecided; at length Hans conquered and slew the animal.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Rejoiced to see the boar stretched at his feet, he kicked the tusk with violence, exclaiming, "Thou shalt not yet kill me!"[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") But he had struck with such force that the sharp tooth pierced his boot and wounded his foot.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") At first Hackelberg paid no attention to the wound, but continued the chase.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") On his return, however, the foot was so swollen, that the boot had to be cut off.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") He hastened back to Wolfenbüttel, but the vehicle shook the foot so that he was obliged to stop on the way at Wülperode, where he died.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") Before his death he expressed a wish that he might hunt for ever, and his rash desire was granted.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") The Tut-Osel, or Tut-Ursel, always accompanies him.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") At midnight, when in storm and rain, Hackelberg with horse and dogs tears through the Thuringian Forest, the Harz, and the Hackel Forest, the night or death owl flies before him, which the people call the Tut-Osel.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") The wanderer, when he hears the ghostly hunt, listens in terror to the barking of dogs, and hears the hu! hu! of the chase, and the uhu of the death-owl.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") In a Kloster in Thuringia lived, in the primeval days of convents, a nun called Ursel--Ursula--who always disturbed the choir of nuns by her howling singing; hence she was called Tut-Ursel.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") But after her death she disturbed them even more than in her lifetime, for at eleven every evening she poked her head through a hole in the church tower and \_tooted\_ dreadfully, and every morning at four she joined her voice in the matin-song.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") For some days the holy sisters bore this lamentable disturbance; but at last one morning one of the nuns whispered in fear to her neighbour, "That is certainly the Ursel!"[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Instantly the music ceased, their hair rose to mountains, and the nuns rushed out of the church screaming: "Tut-Ursel\![26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") Tut-Ursel!"[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") And no punishment could induce a single nun to enter the church again until a Capuchin monk from a monastery on the Danube, noted for his sanctity, was summoned.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") He condemned Tut-Ursel to banishment in the Harz, and to bear the form of a death-owl.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Here she encountered Hackelberg, and found as much delight in the hu, hu! of his eternal hunt as he in her uhu! and so they hunt for ever in company.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Another story is that the screech-owl is a nun who was false to her vows, and left her convent to follow Hackelberg.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") The origin of this legend belongs to the ancient pagan days.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") It is even disputed that a person called Hackelberg existed, and if so, the legend is ages older than the sixteenth century, the time when he is said to have lived.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") The Wild Hunter, the Wanderer, was Wodan himself in the pagan days.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") At the introduction of Christianity we find a new development of the ancient myths.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Wodan becomes the foul fiend, then the godless Hunter, and the Wandering Jew.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") In the Black Forest the eternal Hunter and the eternal Jew are regarded as the same person.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") They both always carry a groschen in the pocket.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") In some parts of Germany the harrows are placed in the fields with the teeth together, that the wanderer may rest himself.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") According to some authorities, he may only rest Christmas night, and then only when he finds a plough in the field; only on that may he sit down.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Every seven years the Huntsman passes over the seven mining towns of the Harz, and woe to him who calls after him.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") According to one legend, the Wild Huntsman met Christ at a river where He sought to quench His thirst, and would not permit Him to drink; he also drove Him from a cattle trough, and when the Saviour found water in a horse's foot-print, and would drink there, he drove Him away.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") As a punishment, he is doomed to wander for ever, and eat only horse-flesh.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") This is the pagan legend Christianized.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") In West and South Germany we find the Wild Army.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") Odin, or Wodan, was the god, too, of armies, and always went out from Walhalla at the head of his ghostly array, while his nine Walküren conducted the fallen heroes back to Walhalla.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") The Origin of the Philippine.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") Once, long centuries ago, a Princess lived in Schloss Hohenstein who was very fond of almonds, but was firmly resolved never to marry, so she invented the following plan.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") She caused every prince who came a-wooing--and her suitors were countless--to eat the half of a double almond, and she ate its twin half.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") And then she said, "If you can induce me to take anything from your hand without saying "\_J'y pense\_," I am ready for marriage with you; but if, on the other hand, I can lead you to receive any object from my hand without your repeating those saving words, you shall have your head shaved, and forthwith leave my dominions."[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") But there was a trick in the stipulation, namely, the etiquette of the royal court forbade any person, on pain of death, to hand anything direct to the Princess, but rather to the lady-in-waiting, who presented it to her mistress.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") But if the Kaiser's daughter chose herself to hand any one anything, who was there to forbid it?[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") Thus it was for the luckless wooers a bitter sport, for let them exert themselves as they would to beguile the royal maiden into taking anything from their hands, the inevitable lady-in-waiting spoiled their sport.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") But when Princess Huldigunde determined to get rid of a certain adorer, she grew so engaging that he became perfectly enchanted, and as he sat beside her, intoxicated with joy, she seized either a pomegranate, or an egg near her, and handed it to him, saying softly, "Keep that as a souvenir."[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") As soon as the wooer took the object, it sprang open, and a frog, or a hornet, or bat flew into his hair or face, and in his fright he forgot to say, "\_J'y pense\![55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") \_" And then he was shaved on the spot, and away with him.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") This went on for years, and in all kings' houses princes wore wigs.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") It happened at last that a foreign prince saw Huldigunde, and found her fair, and saw through the trick.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/13/page/2/) - ← previous: [Legends and Tales., part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/13/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/)