Mythical Trail: Black Dog Traditional Cache
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Mythical Trail: Black Dog
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This is the name of a type of fiend or terrifying spirit found in folklore throughout most of the southern and eastern English counties, and sometimes in Scotland. They appear under many different names in other regions. Some are reported to be malicious, and some can be quite benevolent at times.Black Dogs are usually encountered on lonely tracks, ancient roads and crossroads, bridges and entrances – the places of transition in people’s lives. They are normally benign if left alone and are often said to be the guardian spirit of some ancient treasure or sacred place. If anyone attempts to strike out or engage them in any way, then the Black Dogs can show most frightful powers, inflicting savage wounds, paralysis, and death, then they vanish before the eyes of any survivor. To see one is supposed to portend death within the year, however, in some parts of England there are well known instances of Black Dogs appearing to lost travelers or frightened girls traveling alone and guiding them safely home. The tale of a white Black Dog in Dartmoor was the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’.
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