wild hunt

If houses were built on former roads, they could be burnt down, because Odin did not change his plans if he had formerly travelled on a road there.

 Not even charcoal kilns could be built on disused roads, because if Odin was hunting the kiln would be ablaze

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt

Leader of the Wild Hunt[edit]

• Brittany: King Arthur.^[32]
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• Catalonia (Spain): Count Arnau (el comte Arnau), a legendary nobleman from Ripollès, who for his rapacious cruelty and lechery is condemned to ride to hounds for eternity while his flesh is devoured by flames. He is the subject of a classic traditional Catalan ballad.^[33]
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• England: Woden;^[34] Herla; later de-heathenised as a Brythonic King who stayed too long at a fairy wedding feast and returned to find centuries had passed and the lands populated by Englishmen);^[35] Wild Edric, a Saxon rebel;^[36] Hereward the Wake; King Arthur; Herne the Hunter; St. Guthlac; Old Nick; Jan Tregeagle, a Cornish lawyer who escaped from Hell and is pursued by the devil's hounds. On Dartmoor, Dewer, Old Crockern or Sir Francis Drake.
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• France: Artus, King Arthur (Brittany); Lord of Gallery (Poitou).^{[citation needed]}
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• Germany: Wodan, Berchtold, Dietrich of Berne, Holda, Perchta, Wildes Gjait. The Squire of Rodenstein and Hans von Hackelberg (both Sabbath-breakers).^[37]
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• Guernsey: Herodias (Rides with witches at sea)^[38]
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• Ireland: Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna; Manannán—also known as The Fairy Cavalcade.^{[citation needed]}
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• Lombardy (Italy): King Beatrik, la Dona del Zöch (Lombard:the Lady of the Game).^[39]
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• Netherlands: Wodan, Gait met de hunties/hondjes (Gait with his little dogs), Derk met de hunties/hondjes (Derk with his little dogs), Derk met den beer (Derk with his boar/bear),het Glujende peerd (the glowing horse). Ronnekemère, Henske met de hondjes/Hänske mit de hond (Henske with his little dogs), Berend van Galen (Beerneken van Galen, Bèrndeken van Geulen, Bommen Berend or Beerneken, the bishop of Münster, Germany).
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• Scandinavia: Odin; Lussi; King Vold (Denmark); Valdemar Atterdag (Denmark); the witch Guro Rysserova and Sigurdsveinen (Norway).
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• Wales: Arawn or Gwyn ap Nudd, the Welsh god of the Underworld.
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• Slovenia: Jarnik (Jarilo), also called Volčji pastir (Wolf Herdsman). In some variations mythical wild Baba (similar to Perchta) leads the hunt.