[wizzosis]

I've recently become very interested in the folklroe about the hell hounds or black dogs as they're also called. I don't really know THAT much about them. I just know they're supposed to be death omens, that people who see them die shortly afterwards and that there have been sightings ever since the 1500s all over the world.

Does anyone have an interesting link or an article about them? I'd be very glad.

Thanks

[Marby]

wizzosis on Sep 27 2008, 04:05 PM, said:

I've recently become very interested in the folklroe about the hell hounds or black dogs as they're also called. I don't really know THAT much about them. I just know they're supposed to be death omens, that people who see them die shortly afterwards and that there have been sightings ever since the 1500s all over the world.

Does anyone have an interesting link or an article about them? I'd be very glad.

Thanks

http://nli.northampton.ac.uk/***/psych-staff/sjs/blackdog
http://www2.prestel....x/blackdog.html
http://www.mysteriou...black_dogs.html

These are a good start. The black dog legends are among my favorites.

[NightTrainMurderer]

I actually have a friend that experienced something like this.

Years ago his family moved into a new house. Months passed and everything seemed normal. Until one night he began to hear a dog howling. Once a night, each night around the same time. His mother asked someone in the neighborhood about the dog and she was told "the howling of a dog means that someone nearby is sick". By the end of the week his father was in the hospital. A few days later when coming home he found a large black dog sitting at his door step. For some reason he didn't think anything of it. Almost as if it was a normal occurance. Each day he'd come home walk past the dog, pet it and go inside. One day he came home and didn't see the dog. He figured it just found a new place to hang out. He walked inside to find his mother crying on the couch. She just found out that her husband his father had passed away. From then on he never heard the howling or saw the dog ever again.

[omed78]

I'm pretty sure my basset hound is from hell. At least his breath is.

[OldTimeRadio]

While I don't believe in werewolves, as such, there's certainly a lot of observational evidence arguing for at least the occasional existence of hell hounds and "spectral canines."

[Incorrigible1]

OldTimeRadio on Oct 5 2008, 05:59 PM, said:

While I don't believe in werewolves, as such, there's certainly a lot of observational evidence arguing for at least the occasional existence of hell hounds and "spectral canines."

The great blues man, Robert Johnson, sang of "Hellhound On My Trail."

[Vez]

I've read articles about them in magazines called Beyond and Paranormal. I haven't been able to find Beyond in any shops so I think it might of gone out of business, or been remade into Paranormal, as they are very similiar.

If you're interested, I could scan the articles for you?

[kiddglock]

wizzosis on Sep 27 2008, 03:05 PM, said:

I've recently become very interested in the folklroe about the hell hounds or black dogs as they're also called. I don't really know THAT much about them. I just know they're supposed to be death omens, that people who see them die shortly afterwards and that there have been sightings ever since the 1500s all over the world.

Does anyone have an interesting link or an article about them? I'd be very glad.

Thanks

The folklore about the Black Dog or Black Hog, if you are a Scot, goes back even farther than the 1500's I'm sure. Chillingham Castle has a story about one I think.

[OldTimeRadio]

Since there are hundreds and perhaps even thousands of first-person Hellhound and Black Dog reports doesn't this subject much more properly belong under Cryptozoology than here under Urban Legends?

And even if such animals are only legends (which doesn't seem to be the case), they're not exactly "urban" ones. <g>

[MaggieDruydess]

Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles comes to mind. As does Cerebus and a couple other stories I have heard.

[Justie]

wizzosis, on 27 September 2008 - 07:05 AM, said:

I've recently become very interested in the folklroe about the hell hounds or black dogs as they're also called. I don't really know THAT much about them. I just know they're supposed to be death omens, that people who see them die shortly afterwards and that there have been sightings ever since the 1500s all over the world.

Does anyone have an interesting link or an article about them? I'd be very glad.

Thanks

I've recently became interested in these myths lately too. I usaully watch Animal Planet. And today I was watching 'Lost Tapes' on Animal Planet and they were showing a video of 'HellHounds' or Devil Dogs. And i also did my research on them too. And i got that these black dogs usaully roam hillsides and graveyards. They have glowing red eyes, super strength and speed, and a tendency to trail fire and brimstone in their wake. And they are said to have been created by a group of acient demonds to serve as heralds of death. And some say it takes once or three sights of seeing a hellhound leads to the veiwer's demise, or death.

[Demonic Influence]

My brothers seen one

[Spend]

Black Shuck is my favorite black dog for 3 reasons

1 its a local myth/legend
2 its apparently one of the oldest named black dogs
3 there are just so many tales about him

one of the most famous appearances was at Blythburgh in Suffolk where he ran into a church killed a man and boy and causing the church tower to collapse through the roof. the scorch marks left by it passage can still be seen by the north door to this day

also the tale of it appearance at Cromer hall is said to be inspiration for the hounds of the baskervilles

[OldTimeRadio]

Some of my favorite stories are those from the British Isles in which a woman is forced to walk home at night alone along dark, twisting roads.

A huge black mastiff with glowing red eyes shows up to "chaparone" and protect her.

When upon reaching the safety of her own door she reaches out to pet the dog in gratitude it vanishes.

[maximaldecimal]

I'm reminded of Garm and the brood of Fenris from the eddic poems.

Vulupso link

The Vulupso contains the tail of Ragnarok or the fate of the gods.

This post has been edited by maximaldecimal: 17 October 2009 - 12:11 AM