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class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Brothers_Grimm" title="Brothers Grimm">Brothers Grimm</a>’s <i><a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Sagen" title="Deutsche Sagen">Deutsche Sagen</a></i> (German folktales), <a href="/wiki/County_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="County of Württemberg">Count</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_monarchs_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="List of monarchs of Württemberg">Eberhard</a> <a href="/wiki/House_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="House of Württemberg">of</a> <a href="/wiki/W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Württemberg">Württemberg</a> encountered the <i>ewiger Jäger</i> while hunting in the woods. After hearing a loud swooshing and other noise like that made by a huntsman, Count Eberhard dismounted his steed and asked the ghost whether it wanted to harm him. The ghostly hunter said no and told the <a href="/wiki/Count" title="Count">count</a> that he was a human like him and was formerly a lord. When the ghost was a lord, he found such pleasure in hunting that he begged God to let him hunt until <a href="/wiki/Judgement_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Judgement Day">Judgement Day</a>. His wish was answered, much to his chagrin, and ever since, the <i>ewiger Jäger</i> had to chase the same <a href="/wiki/Deer" title="Deer">deer</a> for five and a half centuries before meeting Count Eberhard. He also told the count that his house and nobility were still undisclosed. On hearing this, Count Eberhard asked the huntsman to show his face so he could identify him. The revealed face was hardly as big as a fist, withered like a turnip and wrinkled like a mushroom. After that, the ghostly huntsman continued chasing his deer, and the count returned to his land.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Bechstein" title="Ludwig Bechstein">Ludwig Bechstein</a> told the same legend and gave additional detail. According to him, the <i>ewiger Jäger</i> appears as a gnarled little man dressed in green. In <a href="/wiki/Swabia" title="Swabia">Swabia</a>, where the meeting with the Count of Württemberg took place, this ghost is also known as <i>Weltsjäger</i> or rather in <a href="/wiki/Swabian_German" title="Swabian German">Swabian</a> <a href="/wiki/Diminutive" title="Diminutive">diminutive</a> as <i>Weltschjägerle</i> (both: (little) world hunter) since he has to chase and run around the whole world. He was punished with eternal hunt for going for a hunt on a Sunday, breaking <a href="/wiki/Sunday_rest" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday rest">Sunday rest</a>. After this encounter, the count was horror-stricken and never again went hunting.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Belgium">Belgium</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ewiger_J%C3%A4ger&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Belgium"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-One_source plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-one_source" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>relies largely or entirely on a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_with_a_single_source" title="Wikipedia:Articles with a single source">single source</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Relevant discussion may be found on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Ewiger_J%C3%A4ger##" title="Talk:Ewiger Jäger">talk page</a>. 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Near <a href="/wiki/Wijnendale_Castle" title="Wijnendale Castle">Wijnendale Castle</a> in Flanders, there dwelled a pious and hardworking farmer who had an only son. This son did not care for home and fields and preferred to hunt in the woods, not caring for his father's pleas and threats. When the old father lay on his deathbed, he sent for his son to say farewell and warn him. The son, hearing his dying father's request, decided to take his gun, whistle for his hounds, and go into the woods instead. Hearing about this, the old man raised his hands in desperation, cursing his son just before death: "So go hunting, hunting, hunting for all eternity—for all eternity”. </p><p>Afterward, the cursed son never returned home and was heard in the woods shouting "<i>Jakko! Jakko! Jakko!</i>", screeching like a <a href="/wiki/Bird_of_prey" title="Bird of prey">bird of prey</a> or barking like a dog, doomed to continue until Judgement Day or longer. He haunted the woods around <a href="/wiki/Wijnendale" title="Wijnendale">Wijnendale</a> until they were cut down and then retreated to still-forested heights.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_States">United States</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ewiger_J%C3%A4ger&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the United States, the <i>ewiger Jäger</i> was introduced by <a href="/wiki/German_Americans" title="German Americans">German immigrants</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> who later were called <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch" title="Pennsylvania Dutch">Pennsylvania Dutch</a>. There are a variety of spellings in <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch_language" title="Pennsylvania Dutch language">Pennsylvania Dutch dialect</a>, all of which mean "(the) eternal hunter": <i>(Der) Ewich Yaeger</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Ewichyeager</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>(der<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) Eewich Yeager</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Adams_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adams-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>der Ewige Jaeger</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Ewicher Yeeger</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>(Dar) Ewich Jaejer</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Korson_1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Korson_1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Avich Yeager</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Korson_2_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Korson_2-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>(Der) Aivich Yaeger</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Korson_3_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Korson_3-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Canada_goose" title="Canada goose">Canada goose</a> is called <i>Awicher Yager</i> (i.e., eternal hunter) because of its sounds: a flock traveling at night can sound like a pack of dogs baying in the sky. In <a href="/wiki/Pine_Grove,_Schuylkill_County,_Pennsylvania" title="Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania">Pine Grove</a>, a sound of baying dogs in the sky is associated with flocks of <a href="/wiki/Loon" title="Loon">loons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Korson_3_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Korson_3-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_legends">General legends</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ewiger_J%C3%A4ger&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: General legends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Pine Grove, <a href="/wiki/Blue_Mountain_(Pennsylvania)" title="Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania)">Blue Mountain</a> is believed to be haunted by <i>Dar Ewich Jaejer</i> or <i>Ewige Jaeger</i>. When a phantom pack of hounds is heard on a quiet night in the fall hunting season, people look to the sky and say that the eternal hunter is riding.<sup id="cite_ref-Korson_1_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Korson_1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is said to have been a <a href="/wiki/Fox_hunter" class="mw-redirect" title="Fox hunter">fox hunter</a> who <a href="/wiki/Profanity" title="Profanity">cursed</a> and swore an <a href="/wiki/Oath" title="Oath">oath</a> to catch a certain <a href="/wiki/Red_fox" title="Red fox">fox</a>, even if he had to chase it into <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">eternity</a>. Thus, he continues chasing the fox with his barking dogs long after his death, returning from the other world to Blue Mountain about thirty times a year. He is doomed to chase the fox without ever catching it.<sup id="cite_ref-Korson_3_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Korson_3-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Tremont_Township,_Pennsylvania" title="Tremont Township, Pennsylvania">Tremont township</a>, <i>Der Aivich Yaeger</i> is said to glide through the skies at certain times, particularly in autumn. He appears as a man dressed in hunters’ attire and can be heard blowing his hunter’s horn to his dogs.<sup id="cite_ref-Korson_3_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Korson_3-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Oley_Township,_Berks_County,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania">Oley Township</a>, the <i>Ewichyeager</i> is known. He is said to hunt on the hills surrounding <a href="/wiki/Oley_Valley" title="Oley Valley">Oley Valley</a> and is sometimes thought to be someone from the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Keim_(surname)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Keim (surname) (page does not exist)">Keim</a> family line of Pennsylvania Dutch who, because of his fondness for hunting, decided to use <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> <a href="/wiki/Magic_(supernatural)" title="Magic (supernatural)">magic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Braucherei" class="mw-redirect" title="Braucherei">Braucherei</a> to hunt eternally.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The eternal hunter is said to hunt on <a href="/wiki/South_Mountain_(Maryland_and_Pennsylvania)" title="South Mountain (Maryland and Pennsylvania)">South Mountain</a> at night, where he can be heard calling for his pack of dogs. Those encountering him at night will either be torn to bits by his dogs or spirited away, never to be seen again. The dogs are said to be strange black animals with white teeth. They will not attack if they are blinded by lantern light.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Drought_legends">Drought legends</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ewiger_J%C3%A4ger&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Drought legends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania German Blobarrick), the <i>Ewicher Yeeger</i> became known when, after the foundation of <a href="/wiki/Lynn_Township,_Pennsylvania" title="Lynn Township, Pennsylvania">Lynn Township</a> in 1732, in the area called Allemaengel (all deficiencies) by Pennsylvania German settlers, there was a severe drought accompanied by <a href="/wiki/Crop_failure" class="mw-redirect" title="Crop failure">crop failure</a> and the disappearance of all <a href="/wiki/Game_animals" class="mw-redirect" title="Game animals">game animals</a>. Autumn had arrived, and the desperately praying settlers faced starvation and illness, when one night a booming voice and barking hounds were heard from nowhere and everywhere at once. The frightened settlers left their homes at dawn to find that all kinds of game animals had returned. Starvation was warded off because hunting was possible again. The barking and howling pack of <i>Ewicher Yeeger</i> can be heard while the wild huntsman assures people that Blue Mountain remains bountiful.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Schuylkill_County,_Pennsylvania" title="Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania">Schuylkill County</a>, there is a similar tale about a drought accompanied by crop failure and lack of game animals. One settler, a <a href="/wiki/Single_person" title="Single person">single</a> man without wife or children, decided to take his pack of <a href="/wiki/Hunting_dog" title="Hunting dog">hunting dogs</a> and his gun, setting out to find meat to feed everyone, vowing not to return until he gathered enough for the whole village to survive winter. He did not return. Even after death, <i>Der Ewich Yaeger</i> is bound to his <a href="/wiki/Vow" title="Vow">vow</a>. On cold October nights in the woods, a pack of dogs can be heard baying, and the huntsman can be seen hunting in the mountains.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another variant from Blue Mountain says that streams dried out after a long, dry summer in a drought, and game animals went missing. An old man decided to take his dogs and chase deer back, vowing to do so eternally, even through the sky, if necessary, to save his village. A few days later, deer returned, but the hunter never did. He still travels through the air as the <i>Avich Yeager</i>, accompanied by barking hounds, driving away all deer he encounters, as occurred in <a href="/wiki/Paradise_Valley,_Pennsylvania" title="Paradise Valley, Pennsylvania">Paradise Valley</a> in August 1949.<sup id="cite_ref-Korson_2_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Korson_2-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Ewich Yaeger</i> is also said to have set out to return deer and rabbits to Pine Grove and hunted through the sky ever after. He can be heard on autumn nights when barking and shotgun fire sound in the sky.<sup id="cite_ref-Korson_2_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Korson_2-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Furnace_legends">Furnace legends</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ewiger_J%C3%A4ger&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Furnace legends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Lebanon_County,_Pennsylvania" title="Lebanon County, Pennsylvania">Lebanon County</a>, <i>der Eewich Yeager</i> is associated with the <a href="/wiki/Cornwall_Iron_Furnace" title="Cornwall Iron Furnace">Cornwall Iron Furnace</a>, and his story is told by <a href="/wiki/George_Henry_Boker" title="George Henry Boker">George Henry Boker</a> in the poem "The Legend of the Hounds".<sup id="cite_ref-Adams_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adams-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Der Eewich Yeager</i> is said to have been the cruel <a href="/wiki/Ironmaster" title="Ironmaster">ironmaster</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Blast_furnace" title="Blast furnace">furnace</a> in life.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ironmaster loved <a href="/wiki/Whiskey" class="mw-redirect" title="Whiskey">whiskey</a>, women, and the fox hunt, but he treated his workers, <a href="/wiki/Mistress_(lover)" title="Mistress (lover)">mistresses</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hound" title="Hound">hounds</a> with violence, discarding them at a whim.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The only exception to this was the leader of the pack of hounds and the ironmaster's constant companion—Flora, according to the poem. This hound was also mistreated but largely spared because she was unmatched in chasing prey, and she once saved her drunken master's life on a snowy winter night.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This special treatment changed, however, when the ironmaster invited influential guests for hunting, but his pack of hounds had no success. Infuriated, he rode over his dogs and whipped them, not even sparing Flora. Then he drove all forty hounds into the burning furnace, sparing only Flora.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Flora started growling, roaring, and baring her fangs at her master, he became irate. When she was peaceful again, he threw her into the furnace, where she cried, "God, God, God!” <sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After coming to his senses, the ironmaster was overcome with grief at the loss of Flora. He sat on his bed all day, drinking and slowly wasting away.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One evening, his burning hounds returned from the furnace, led by Flora; they chased him around his home until he dropped dead, achieving their <a href="/wiki/Revenge" title="Revenge">revenge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another version says that the pack leader was Singing Ann; the ironmaster's guests were friends from <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>; and the ironmaster repented on his deathbed in March 1790, calling for Singing Ann's return. Ever since, he is said to travel the night skies as <i>der Ewige Jaeger</i>. Supposedly, the barking and yelping of hounds, stomping of horses' hooves, and ironmaster's muffled commands can still be heard from the sky.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literature">Literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ewiger_J%C3%A4ger&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Charles J. Adams III: <i>Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts Legends and Lore</i>. Exeter House Books, Reading 1994, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-49304-392-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-49304-392-7">978-1-49304-392-7</a>.</li> <li>Ludwig Bechstein: <i>Deutsches Sagenbuch</i>. <a href="/wiki/Meiningen" title="Meiningen">Meiningen</a> 1852. (reprint: F. W. Hendel Verlag, <a href="/wiki/Meersburg" title="Meersburg">Meersburg</a>/<a href="/wiki/Leipzig" title="Leipzig">Leipzig</a> 1930.)</li> <li>Dennis Boyer: <i>Once Upon a Hex: A Spiritual Ecology of the Pennsylvania Germans</i>. Badger Books Inc., Oregon 2004, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-93254-209-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-93254-209-7">978-1-93254-209-7</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Grimm" title="Wilhelm Grimm">Wilhelm Grimm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Grimm" title="Jacob Grimm">Jacob Grimm</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Sagen" title="Deutsche Sagen">Deutsche Sagen</a>: Vollständige Ausgabe mit Illustrationen von Otto Ubbellohde</i>. <a href="/wiki/Kassel" title="Kassel">Kassel</a> 1818. (reprint: Nikol, <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a> 2014, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-86820-245-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-86820-245-8">978-3-86820-245-8</a>)</li> <li>Audrey Burie Kirchner, Margaret R. Tassia: <i>In Days Gone By: Folklore and Traditions of the Pennsylvania Dutch</i>. Libraries Unlimited, Inc., Englewood 1996, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-56308-381-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-56308-381-5">978-1-56308-381-5</a>.</li> <li>George Korson, Stanley Mossman: <i>Black Rock: Mining Folklore of the Pennsylvania Dutch</i>. Baltimore 1960. (reprint: Literary Licensing, Whitefish 2011, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-25812-661-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-25812-661-2">978-1-25812-661-2</a>)</li> <li>Mark Nesbitt, Patty A. Wilson: <i>The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories</i>. Globe Pequot, Lanham 2019, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-49304-392-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-49304-392-7">978-1-49304-392-7</a>.</li> <li>Robert Schreiwer: <i>Ewicher Yeeger</i>. In: Hunter M. Yoder: <i>Der Volksfreund: Hex Signs, Folktales and Witchcraft of the Pennsylvania Dutch</i>. Philadelphia 2019, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-09084-004-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-09084-004-2">978-1-09084-004-2</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ewiger_J%C3%A4ger&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm: <i>Deutsche Sagen</i>. Hamburg 2014, p. 307.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ludwig Bechstein: <i>Deutsches Sagenbuch</i>. Meersbusch, Leipzig 1930, p. 595.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ludwig Bechstein: <i>Deutsches Sagenbuch</i>. Meersbusch, Leipzig 1930, p. 117 f.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Mark Nesbitt, Patty A. Wilson: <i>The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories</i>. Lanham 2019, p. 339.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Dennis Boyer: <i>Once Upon a Hex: A Spiritual Ecology of the Pennsylvania Germans</i>. Oregon 2004, p. 106.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Adams says <i>die</i> but that is the wrong article</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Adams-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Adams_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Adams_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> Charles J. Adams III: <i>Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts Legends and Lore</i>. Reading 1994, p. 43.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Charles J. Adams III: <i>Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts Legends and Lore</i>. Reading 1994, p. 53.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Robert Schreiwer: <i>Ewicher Yeeger</i>. In: Hunter M. Yoder: <i>Der Volksfreund: Hex Signs, Folktales and Witchcraft of the Pennsylvania Dutch</i>. Philadelphia 2019, p. 252.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Korson_1-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Korson_1_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Korson_1_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> George Korson, Stanley Mossman: <i>Black Rock: Mining Folklore of the Pennsylvania Dutch</i>. Whitefish 2011, p. 334.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Korson_2-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Korson_2_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Korson_2_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Korson_2_11-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> George Korson, Stanley Mossman: <i>Black Rock: Mining Folklore of the Pennsylvania Dutch</i>. Whitefish 2011, p. 335.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Korson_3-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Korson_3_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Korson_3_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Korson_3_12-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Korson_3_12-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> George Korson, Stanley Mossman: <i>Black Rock: Mining Folklore of the Pennsylvania Dutch</i>. Whitefish 2011, p. 336.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Dennis Boyer: <i>Once Upon a Hex: A Spiritual Ecology of the Pennsylvania Germans</i>. Oregon 2004, p. 110 f.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Audrey Burie Kirchner, Margaret R. Tassia: <i>In Days Gone By: Folklore and Traditions of the Pennsylvania Dutch</i>. Englewood 1996, p. 72 ff.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Robert Schreiwer: <i>Ewicher Yeeger</i>. In: Hunter M. Yoder: <i>Der Volksfreund: Hex Signs, Folktales and Witchcraft of the Pennsylvania Dutch</i>. Philadelphia 2019, p. 252 ff.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Mark Nesbitt, Patty A. Wilson: <i>The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories</i>. Lanham 2019, p. 339 f.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Charles J. Adams III: <i>Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts Legends and Lore</i>. Reading 1994, p. 44.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Charles J. Adams III: <i>Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts Legends and Lore</i>. Reading 1994, p. 45.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Charles J. Adams III: <i>Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts Legends and Lore</i>. Reading 1994, p. 45 f.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Charles J. Adams III: <i>Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts Legends and Lore</i>. Reading 1994, p. 46 ff.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Charles J. Adams III: <i>Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts Legends and Lore</i>. Reading 1994, p. 49 f.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Charles J. Adams III: <i>Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts Legends and Lore</i>. Reading 1994, p. 50.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Charles J. Adams III: <i>Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts Legends and Lore</i>. Reading 1994, p. 51.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Charles J. Adams III: <i>Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts Legends and Lore</i>. 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