Oskorei
Disclaimer
This is NOT a page about Wiccans or neo-pagans, and I do not advocate the belief that Wiccans are Satan-worshippers and/or baby-killers. I am well aware that they are not. This is a starting point for historical research into the great witch craze of 1100-1700 AD. And please, don't ask me for spells.
Oskorei
Oskorei is a Norse term for members of the Wild Hunt, or the Furious Horde (night-time followers of Diana). According to Kjetil A. Flatin in Tussar og trolldom (1930), one piece of folklore reads:
On Aase in Flatdal, they were drinking and carousing one evening around Christmastime. Two men strapped themselves together with a belt and fought with knives. One of the men was stabbed and lay dead on the floor. Then the oskorei came riding in through the door, took the dead man with them, and threw a firebrand on the floor.
They left some reins behind on the attic floor. The reins have been kept at Aase ever since (Earendil - Oskerei).
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Oskorei is copyrighted 1997-1998 to Shantell Powell.