In addition to Runic studies, the Wolfbund also explores the strange events that are peculiar to our Folk, one of which is the "wild hunt" and events associated with the phenomenon. This Yuletide event was known by different names among the verious Germanic countries

Wutendes Heer and Wilde Jagd in Germany.

Oskarei > Ásguðreið and Oensjaegeren (Óðinn's Hunters) in Scandinavia

Maisinie Hellequin in France

The Hunt in England

Wuetisheer, Guetisheer , and Wilde Fare in Switzerland

The coming of the host, despite its horrifying nature, was welcomed nonetheless, as it was believed to bring prosperity to flock and farm. In several Indo-European cultures of Europe, the Leader of the Wild hunt is feminine (in Greece, Artemis-hekate). Bede, on the other hand, calls the twelve nights of Yule modra nect or "Mother Nights". On the Elbe, a feminine Leader of the Wild hunt appears, called Frau Wode, or Frau Gode; The hunt is also said to be lead by a Frau Gauden in Mecklenburg. She is also known as Frau Perchta, Frau Berchta, Frau Holle, and Frau Holda.

Vulpius' has this 16th-century description of the Nürnberg Fastnacht train:

"…..the wild host, very strange figures, horned, beaked, tailed ... roaring and shouting ... behind, on a black, wild steed, Frau Holda, the Wild Huntress, blowing into the hunting horn, swinging the cracking whip, her head-hair shaking about wildly like a true wonder-outrage."

Similar descriptions of the host appear in the Tyrol, such as the "Perchtenlauf" as described by Zingerle in 1857:

"The Perchtenlauf was earlier than usual on the last Fasching-evening. It was a kind of masked procession. The masked ones were called Perchten. They were divided into beautiful and ugly.... The beautiful Perchten often distributed gifts. So went it loudly and joyfully, if the wild Perchte herself did not come among them. If this spirit mixed among them, the game was dangerous. One could recognize the presence of the wild Perchte when the Perchten raged all wild and furious and sprang over the well-stock. In this case the Perchten ran swiftly away from each other in fear and tried to reach the nearest, best house. For as soon as one was under a roof, the Wild One could not have them any longer. Otherwise she would tear apart anyone who she could get possession of. Even today, one can see places where the Perchten torn apart by the wild Perchte lie buried"

(Sitten, Bräuuche, und Meinungen des Tiroler Volkes, in Höfler, p. 59).

While there are many permutations on this tradition, we in the Wolf bund recognize them all as stemming from a common source going back intp the far reached of our heathen past. So in keeping with the Yuletide Tradition, the Wolfbund observes the Ancient Rites of Frau Perchta while preparing the ground for the steed that carry's the Dark hunter.
Further, a word or two on the Feminine aspects within the Wolfbund. In addition to what is written above, we feel Yuletide is also a proper time of the year to Weave a web of Wyrd. This is carried out as a Nornic function by the Ladies of the Wolfbund as a way to rede what is, what is becoming, and what may yet be. In addition, during our verious Rites throughout the year, the Ladies of the Bund fulfill the mythic role of the Valkyrie in that it is they who prepare the Mead and pour it forth into the horns of Oðinn's own. This one act alone is so very important to the completion of a great mytho-magical formula. That said, we the Men of the Wolfbund, raise our horns to the Ladies of the Wolfbund. Heil!