The legends of the "bad caçador" evil " hunter is one of the legends / myth spread of Indo-European culture, although he probably recognize more quickly if we call it by its original name: wild game - "the wild hunt." In it the protagonist, usually a character or adormentado unhappy, or just unfortunate-is pursued or pursuing a ghostly or demonic entourage continuously or eternal punishment, curse, or divine.
Behind this traditional fairy tale, traditional revised depending on the cultural evolution, there is a primary myth about the tenuous barrier between this world and the Hereafter. In the original myth, the wild hunt, the hunter is usually a god associated with life, death and magic, and behind him there are a number of characters from another world. The dam, however, often takes the form of sexual prey, a deer, a female ... the meaning of myth, but is still built on the basis of conjecture.
See the wild game was an omen of disaster or death, and served as a warning to criminals at night. Anyway, this myth should have a reason, for example, related to the fact that wild game could be seen in key dates, calendar dates associated with large seasonal rites, in which the living world and the Underworld meet. Wild game is a magical myth that both internal death, fertility, resurrection and nature.
In Catalonia there are two legends that circulate around the base of the Wild Hunt: the legend of "Comte Arnau" and the words "evil caçador." In the case of Comte Arnau, he pursues and is pursued by ghosts and demons as punishment for their misdeeds. But in the case of "bad caçador" we find a more or less anonymous, due to disrespect for the church, is doomed to wander like a lost soul followed by a retinue of hell, by the Catalan forests.
Other names of myth in Catalunya:
- Caçador of Lluna
- Caçador Caçador negre of King Robert the Devil
- Riatus
- Calamun
- Comte Arnau
The story:
A holiday that the hunter wanted to use for hunting, decided first pass through the church to hear Mass, but he was near the door to leave before the others. Just at the moment when the priest raised the host to start the fellowship, the hunter saw a hare crossed quickly through the front door. The hunter ran after her, chased by their dogs. Since then nobody has heard of him, and he says he was sentenced to forever pursue the dam throughout the country as punishment for their lack of faith.
Meaning:
Perhaps this myth, the hunter is another personification or symbolizes the god of death, leading humans to another world. However, there are some points that indicate that it is indeed an ancient pre-Christian myth: the fact that it is considered an outcast for religion and the fact that go hunting, chasing a hare, a symbol of fertility and connected to Catalan traditional witches. This leads me to believe, another reformulation over hunting wild Indo-European tradition.
Joan Soler i Amigó in the Encyclopedia of Popular Catalana Fantasia, besides mentioning the link with ancient myths and characters from another world, refers to the connection of hunting wild with these days related to death. For example, says that in Catalonia is considered sin to go hunting on Christmas, winter solstice, and the day of the dead, the Celtic festival of Samhain, probably for wanting to emulate a character as avoidable as the god of the Underworld, hunting souls to take with them. Again, the Christian interpretation of the myth suggests the reason for the bans, long before any Judeo-Christian motive.
Sources:
-Llegendes, tradicions i FETs Serralada Marine. Ramon Monteagudo Coll.
- Encyclopedia of Popular Catalana Fantasia. Joan Soler i Amigó
Meaning:
Perhaps this myth, the hunter is another personification or symbolizes the god of death, leading humans to another world. However, there are some points that indicate that it is indeed an ancient pre-Christian myth: the fact that it is considered an outcast for religion and the fact that go hunting, chasing a hare, a symbol of fertility and connected to Catalan traditional witches. This leads me to believe, another reformulation over hunting wild Indo-European tradition.
Joan Soler i Amigó in the Encyclopedia of Popular Catalana Fantasia, besides mentioning the link with ancient myths and characters from another world, refers to the connection of hunting wild with these days related to death. For example, says that in Catalonia is considered sin to go hunting on Christmas, winter solstice, and the day of the dead, the Celtic festival of Samhain, probably for wanting to emulate a character as avoidable as the god of the Underworld, hunting souls to take with them. Again, the Christian interpretation of the myth suggests the reason for the bans, long before any Judeo-Christian motive.
Sources:
-Llegendes, tradicions i FETs Serralada Marine. Ramon Monteagudo Coll.
- Encyclopedia of Popular Catalana Fantasia. Joan Soler i Amigó
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