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In a novel reimagining this figure’s story, he is healed by the wizard Philip Urswick, who retracts the cure after finding out this figure insulted him. Using details from Jacob Grimm’s study of Germanic mythology, William Harrison Ainsworth dramatized this figure’s legend in that novel. Samuel Ireland claimed this figure hung himself in “the time of Elizabeth,” while in other accounts he was a poacher from the reign of Henry VIII. Controversial folklorist Margaret Murray equated this (emphasize) English spirit with the Celtic (-5[1])god (-5[1])Cernunnos. This spirit is known to (*) “blast” trees, make cows give blood instead of milk, and rattle his chains. In one play, children dressed as “fairies, green and white” pinch a man dressed as this figure under an oak tree. For 10 points, Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor introduced what antlered spirit, whom later folklorists dubiously linked to the Wild Hunt? (0[4])■END■

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