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This superbly ominous story is the earliest English record of the legend of the Wild Hunt. This legend, found in folklore ...

When the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in the Revolution of 1917, the country was still engaged in the First World War, allied with England, France and the United States against the Central Powers ...