Cornu cervi: Dziesiątak koronny
Zupełnie ciekawy – z naszego punktu widzenia – trop znaleźć można w angielskiej wikipedii w haśle Herne Myśliwy:
In his 1929 book The History of the Devil – The Horned God of the West R. Lowe Thompson suggests that „Herne” as well as other Wild Huntsmen in European folklore all derive from the same ancient source, citing that „Herne” may be a cognate of the name of Gaulish deity Cernunnos in the same way that the English „horn” is a cognate of the Latin „cornu” (see Grimm’s Law for more details on this linguistic feature).
Some neo-pagans such as Wiccans consider Herne to be derived from the Celtic God Cernunnos (which they connect to the Greco-Roman god Pan). Herne however is a localised figure, not found outside Berkshire and the regions of the surrounding counties into which Windsor Forest once spread. Clear evidence for the worship of Cernunnos has however been recovered only on the continent, and not in Britain. This is not however conclusive evidence either that Cernunnos was not worshipped in Britain, nor that his folk-memory need have survived the conversion to Christianity in other parts of the country. A link to the Celtic deity remains a strong possibility.
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