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The Wild Hunt Study Guide

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by Jane Yolen
About 14 pages (4,050 words)
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Bradburn, Francis. Review of The Wild Hunt.

Booklist 91 (June 1-15, 1995): 1755. Yolen's intriguing chapter format—Chapter One, Chapter One Sort Of, Chapter One Almost—is her way of indicating the uneasy boundaries between reality and perception much as they are in Through the Looking Glass. The format may be simple, but the story is a complex blend of various European myths, legends, and folklore.

Briggs, Katherine, and Ruth L. Tongue.

Folktales of England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965, Chapter 18. "The Haunted Soul" gives an account in the rural dialect of Somerset of an old woman's experience with the Wild Hunt. The authors went into the countryside for their materials, and supply complete references for each legend and folk tale.

Hole, Christina. English Folklore. London: B. T. Batsford, 1945. Almost every English.....

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The Wild Hunt from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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