Herne the Hunter, a figure in popular tradition, long supposed to range at midnight around an ancient oak in Windsor Forest. He is referred to in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, and Herne's Oak continued to be an object of interest until it was blown down on 31st August 1863. The Queen planted a young oak on the spot where the patriarch had stood, as was supposed, for 650 years.
Herne the Hunter
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 688
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