Odin is a god.
Odin . In later folklore , Odin appears as a leader of the Wild Hunt , a ghostly procession of the dead through the winter sky . Wild Hunt . The hunters may be either elves or fairies or the dead , and the leader of the hunt is often a named figure associated with Woden ( or other reflections of the same god , such as Alemannic Wuodan in Wuotis Heer ( `` Wuodan 's Army '' ) of Central Switzerland , Swabia etc. ) , but may variously be a historical or legendary figure like Theodoric the Great , the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag , the Welsh psychopomp Gwyn ap Nudd , biblical figures such as Herod , Cain , Gabriel or the Devil , or an unidentified lost soul or spirit either male or female .