Herne the Hunter, blowing his horn. Courtesy Fortean Picture Library. Herne (religion, spiritualism, and occult) A modified form ofCernunnos, a Latin title meaning "the Horned One"—the ancientGodof Hunting and of Animals. In some areas of England, Cernunnos has been shortened to Cerne and ...
The Green Man currently appears to be becoming the pre-eminent literary Pagan god, a role occupied by Pan a century ago. For a period, Herne the Hunter contended for this position. In this chapter, after briefly considering the decline and yet survival, even recent resurgence, of Pan, I ...
Herne The Hunter, phantom hunter who haunts Windsor Great Park, impersonated by Falstaff in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Though Herne may have been an actual keeper of the forest, he is probably a local manifestation of the Wild Huntsman my