Case file · Folklore / legend
Walchelin meets the Hellequin's Hunt
Orderic Vitalis records that on 1 January 1091, the priest Walchelin of Bonneval in Normandy met a vast procession of the dead at night, the 'familia Herlechini'.
1091 CE · 48.94, 0.39 · status: account
The account
He saw sinners carried on biers, women riding saddles of burning nails, clergy and knights, and recognised dead neighbours, including his own brother. It is the earliest detailed account of the Wild Hunt in France.