Herne the Hunter from Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor. Towards the climax of the play, the sprightly Mistress Page recounts the story of a "keeper here in Windsor Forest" who is far more than he seems. He is glimpsed at "winter-time" while the earth lies barren, and walks abroad at "still midnight" between the day and night, when the realms of the living and the dead touch and become one. He has "great ragged horns"--a peculiar image that suggests an imposing bedraggled wildness.
from Christopher Nield: The Epoch Times: The Antidote: Herne the Hunter
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