Woden

In parts of Germany and Scandinavia the Wild Hunt was known as 'Woden's Hunt'. The Wild Huntsman was a demonic figure, who would throw unsuspecting peasants their share of 'game' with horrific consequences. This savage and tricky being is generally thought to be an aspect of Woden (from the Saxon Wod), a god who was characterised by his duplicity. Woden is known to be one aspect of Odin. In Germany, these packs of spectral hounds included the souls of unbaptised babies in the train of 'Frau Bertha', who sometimes accompanied the Wild Huntsman.

Cernunnos

The similarity of names associated with the legend-- Herla, Hellequin (or Herlequin), Herne-- tends to point to a common root, perhaps that of Cernunnos, the Horned God of the witches; prehistoric paintings in the cave of Trois Freres in Saint-Giroud in Ariege, France depict, in the midst of a group of various animals, the figure of a man clad in an animal skin, with horns. Similar cave paintings in South Africa and other places, including one remarkable one from Oued Djaret in the Sahara showing a hunter with an animalistic head followed by a dog, seem to reinforce the image. Recently, the “Pagan” movements have unsuccessfully tried  to  reinterpret the original myth in a clumsy new age style that mix the Green Man with the Hunter.

King Arthur

In another tradition of naming the Huntsman after well-known departed nobles of the time, an account of the late 1100s identifies him as King Arthur, a version corroborated by Gervase of Tilbury in the 13th century (1211), who says that Arthur and his knights regularly hunt an ancient trackway between Cadbury and Glastonbury which is still known as King Arthur's Causeway. Gervase  calls the Hunt 'familia Arturi', the household of Arthur, and later in some places in France it was known as 'la Chasse Artus' or 'Arthur's hunt.

In Scotland, an old rhyme goes:

Arthur o' Bower has broken his bands
And he's come roaring owre the lands
The King o' Scots and a' his power
Canna turn Arthur o' Bower.

The Devil

In a process largely described for other categories of monsters, the Church was used to demonizing aspects of the native pagan religions. Naturally, the leader of the hunt became associated Satan, and the hounds were the unfortunate souls of unbaptized children.

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Eckhardt

In Middle and Upper Germany, the man who goes before the host was called "der trewe Eckhardt." Grimm identifies this figure as Eckhardt, Kriemhild's chamberer in Nibelungenlied (III, p. 935), and in the Heldenbuch, he is said to sit outside the Venusberg to warn people, much as he does in the accounts of the furious host. By 1534, Eckhart had passed into a proverb: "Du thust wie der trewe Eckhart, der warnet auch jederman vor schaden" (You do like the trusty Eckhart, who also warns everyone of harm).

Harry-ca-Nab

Another phantom huntsman is Harry-ca-Nab who kept his dogs at Halesowen ('Hell's Own' in popular etymology). He would hunt boar mounted on a winged horse or wild bull across the Lickey Hills on stormy nights. To see his hunt presaged ill luck or death.