hackelnbarend

Updated: June 11, 2025

In Thuringia and elsewhere, it is "Hakelnberg" or "Hackelnbarend," the story being that Hakelnberg, a German knight, who had devoted his whole life to the chase, on his death-bed had told the officiating priest that he cared not a jot for heaven, but only for hunting; the priest losing patience and exclaiming, "Then hunt till Doomsday."

Elliott O'Donnell - Animal Ghosts: Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter