Herne's Oak: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations
There is an old tale goes, that Herne, the hunter, Some time a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle; And makes milch kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner.— M. W. iv. 4.