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Black Dog of England~

The Legend of the British Black Dog

Good afternoon my dearest Friends & Followers, I thought I would bring you back into the magick world of creatures of Enchantment of both Dark & Light. In this post, I am going to cover the Famous Black Dog of England, which is mostly a British legend I've been told. In the post of the Black Dog, I will be giving you all a series of short stories, starting with the year 1577 when I believe it all began? In this first story in the year 1577 it was the middle of Sunday Mass when it seemed that the legend of the black dog would usually appear in isolated places. Well in 1577 during that Sunday Mass, the church doors at

The Phantom Black Dog
of Great Britain

Blythburgh suddenly burst opened & old Shuck appeared growling and slavering too. The Black Dog ran down the aisle and out through the back, of the church. Suddenly the church tower collapsed & an old man and a young boy died of fright. The scorch marks the Dog left on the North door as he passed the people of the church out the door can still be seen to this day! It has been said that the Black Dog is a regional Variation of a phantom that appears in local folklore up and down Great Britain. In Lancashire England, it is called the Striker; In Wales it called the Gwllgi; In Yorkshire Bargest it is called the Dog of Darkness; In the Channel Islands, the Black Dog is supposedly headless & is the ghost of a man wrongly executed for murder; There, of course is the most famous of all the

The Movie of the
Hound of the Baskervilles

phantom Black Dogs of Great Britain & this of the story of Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson that come face to face with the Black Hound of the Baskervilles. The phantom beast that haunted a family for generations in their family moors. I have read all the books and seen all the different versions of the movies old and new. I am a great fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. Well, I hope that you enjoyed the short post on the Black Dog and the connection to the hound of the Baskervilles. I will include a few images that are both about the legend of the black Dog and the story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles..