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Black Dogs
Skriker, Padfoot, Hairy Jack, Black Shuck, Moddey Dhoo – Britain is positively crawling with spectral hounds associated with ancient ways, execution sites and electrical storms. Not all black dogs are evil – some, such as The Gurt Dog of Somerset, are said to watch over children and lost travellers – but most are.
Their appearance is believed in some areas to be a portent of death for the observer or for a relative. Some are actively dangerous, such as York’s barghest. This black dog comes into the city where it hunts in the snickelways, and is possessed of shape-changing abilities, once having been witnessed as a lady’s glove.
There are headless dogs, fiery dogs, dogs that are ghosts of men, dogs that appear as men and dogs that hunt with the ghosts of men. Generally they are saucer-eyed and big as calves. Black Shuck, the ghost dog of the east English, entered the church of Bungay in 1577 during a thunderstorm and killed two people. Claw marks can still be seen on the door.
Perhaps these dogs are folk story hand-me-downs; on the other hand, you might want to stay off crossroads during thunderstorms…
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