...ly afraid of dogs; the best way to repel an attack is through the use of a dog to drive them away.
...ersions their young daughter, was protected from the Hobyahs by the family dog, Turpie. Whenever Turpie saw the Hobyahs coming, he would bark, putting the
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The Sal’awa or السلعوة in Arabic is an elusive dog-like creature in the modern folklore of Egypt.
The '''Sal’awa''' is described to be the size of a dog, have hind legs that are somewhat longer than its front legs, a large muzzl
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'''P'an Hu''' (''Dragon dog'') is the ancestor of the Yao people (a tribe located at the lower reaches
...often characterized by Chinese writers as monsters who combined human and dog anatomy.
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...deshow around the age of sixteen, boasted a similar history to [[Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy]]: she, too, was found running wild in the forest, only her nativ
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...r''', also known as '''Skriker''' or '''Striker''', is a monstrous [[Black Dog]] strongly associated with Lancashire, England.
The Shriker most commonly takes the shape of a giant black dog with glowing eyes, following travellers on the road, although it can also a
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...Gytrash can appear in the shape of a horse, a mule, or as a giant [[Black Dog]] with eyes that glowed like burning coals. In this form the beast was beli
...e'' by Charlotte Bronte, in which the title character mistakes Rochester's dog Pilot for the monster.
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...Jefticheff''', also known as ''The Dog of the Caucasus'' or ''The Siberian Dog-Man'' was an early sideshow performer and person born with a rare condition
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The '''Padfoot''' or '''Padfooit''' is a monstrous shapeshifting [[Black Dog]] found in Leeds, England.
...apeshifting monster whose favorite shape is that of a giant black or white dog, walking on two or three legs. However, it can also manifest as a demonic s
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[[Image:Black Dog pub sign Bouley Jersey.jpg|thumb|The monstrous black dog reputed to haunt Bouley Bay in Jersey is depicted on this pub sign]]
...north of England, especially in Yorkshire, to a mythical monstrous goblin-dog with huge teeth and claws.
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'''Oschaert''' was a road monster and [[Black Dog]] from Belgian folklore, found in and around the town of Hamme.
Oschaert's favorite shapes to take were those of a horse, donkey, or dog, although it could also take the shape of less imposing creatures, such as
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...th arrows. The Stalo told him that he could take all he owned and kill his dog, but must let his boy live.
Andras killed the dog, because if it licked its master's wounds, the Stalo would come back to lif
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...hapen to some extent, for instance, a buffalo may have only one horn, or a dog may have a pig's snout.
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The '''Plat-eye''' is a malicious, ghostly [[Black Dog]] from the folklore of the West Indies, Georgia and South Carolina.
...eir own gravesites, in the shape of an animal. Most often this animal is a dog with blazing eyes. It could also manifest as the ghost of the human it once
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The '''Moddey Dhoo''' or '''Mauthe Doog''' is a black dog haunting the Isle of Man, especially Peel Castle.
...ponymous anti-heroic vicious ship's dog in an 1837 novel ''Snarleyyow, the Dog Fiend'' by Captain Frederick Marryat.
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Cu Sìth literally means 'fairy dog.'
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The '''Black Dog''' is a creature in British [[folklore]]. They are described as being the s
The term '''Black Dog''' is used to refer to apparitions of creatures which resemble black dogs t
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...e as a mountain. Some stories describe him as a fox or [[tanuki]] (raccoon dog) that has shape-shifted, but in most stories his true identity is a mystery
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...sha''' as it is known there, is a worm-like creature which has a head of a dog like creature and a sharp tongue made of gold.
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...nd [[Oschaert]], the Aufhocker could take the shape of a monstrous [[Black Dog]] with burning eyes. It can also take the shape of a black horse or another
As a black dog, the Aufhocker would follow human victims on the road before jumping onto t
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...huck''' or '''Old Shuck''' is the name given to an English ghostly [[Black Dog]] which is said to roam the Norfolk, Essex and Suffolk coastline.
...of the Black Shuck date back to the time of the Vikings based on the huge dog of war of Odin and Thor 'Shukir'. Some very large dogs came over to Britain
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...co broke a fast by eating paprika with roasted fish, and was turned into a dog by Tonacatecuhtli as punishment because paprika is a banned food in such fa
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...born with a rare condition known as hypertrichosis. Known as '''Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy''', he was a famous sideshow performer who was brought to the Uni
...d captured them. Barnum made a point of stressing Fedor's resemblance to a dog, and explained that when he was upset he would bark and growl. In the show,
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...wever, the red-orange colored ones are only about the size of a cow, small dog or insect.
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dog. Encountering them is considered to be a sign of
Cadejo is a large black dog that haunts travelers
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[[Image:Kludde.jpg|thumb|Kludde in its most famous form, a black dog.]]
Kludde usually appears in the shape of a monstrous [[Black Dog]], sometimes winged, that walks on its hind legs. It can also assume the sh
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...are while Dalia imposed Dievas' will. She takes the form of a woman, lamb, dog, swan, or duck.
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The '''Cynocephali''' are dog-headed bipedal creatures in the mythologies of Europe, India and China.
The word is taken from Latin cynocephalus ''dog-head'', which derives from Greek: ''κῠνοκέφᾰλοι''. In Anglo-Sa
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...a few feet into the woods. Joan followed him in, and stopped short. Her dog was lying completely flat in the leaves, and on a rock ten feet away was a
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...ighting, the creature hopped 20 feet (6 m). This variety is said to have a dog or panther-like nose and face, a forked tongue protruding from it, large fa
..., and it has coarse fur with greyish facial hair. The head is similar to a dog's, and its mouth has large teeth.
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...Erytheia, no sooner had he landed than he was confronted by the two-headed dog, Orthrus. With one huge blow from his olive-wood club, Heracles killed the
...ue to its flickering and redness, which was itself considered a dog (the ''dog star''), by association with the constellation. As such, the constellation
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...Leatherface in the remake, "In my estimation, Leatherface is like a beaten dog — he was ostracized and ridiculed, and treated harshly by his peers. The
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The Axehandle Hound resembles a dog with a roughly axelike shape. Its head is shaped like an axe blade, while i
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...ilar to a raccoon’s but larger. The beast head is long and pointed, like a dog with long saber-like teeth and a single-pint horns like a young goat. Sheep
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...s a tiger skin and a ritual apron composed of human bones. Bhairava has a dog as his divine vahana (vehicle).
...ich a garland of flowers was deferentially placed around the neck of every dog in each village.
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...g born from a spherical, yolkless egg, laid during the days of Sirius (the Dog Star) by a seven-year-old rooster and hatched by a toad.
..., which is laid by a seven-old-year cock during the period when Sirius the Dog Star can be seen in the sky. A toad or snake on a dung heap must then hatch
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When they go out searching, the military tracking dog clearly smells something but absolutely refuses to pursue the creature. Ma
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...ably Robert Graves, have written of an incident in which Amaethon steals a dog, lapwing and a white roebuck from Arawn, leading to the Cad Goddeu (Battle
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...12'. Sanderson later added that the bat's head was monkey-like rather than dog-like, and was not pointed.
This animal that flew at me had a muzzle more like that of a monkey than of a dog or of any kind of reptile, in that it was not drawn out to a point. The who
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...ed back to the shore straight away,' he said. 'At first I thought it was a dog and then saw it was much bigger and moving really quickly at about 10 mph.
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:*a person filled with pain and regret will turn into a cat or dog after death, then return as a strigoi. Piercing a body with a needle will p
...eceased has red hair, he is very concerned that he was back in the form of dog, frog, flea or bedbug, and that it enters into houses at night to suck the
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...beautiful girl with long, brown hair. Sometimes, however, she appears as a dog or an old lady. She is much feared by many uneducated Samoans and even by s
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...took a look outside of their front window to see what was upsetting their dog, they saw the two Yucca Men crossing the front lawn. Then some time later t
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...t]] Imagined by C. S. Lewis - An animal that sits upon its haunches like a dog, but appears more like a horse. Its toes are camel-like, and, unable to pro
...Calchona|The Calchona]]- A creature resembling a shaggy white Newfoundland dog, bearded like a billy goat, which attacks mountain travelers.
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...'', the title character is described as "a cross between a bunny, a collie dog and a duck-billed platypus."
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...aga on an errand and is enslaved by her, but the hag's servants — a cat, a dog, a gate and a tree — help Vasilissa to escape because she has been kind t
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...mous power, an Aswang can transform itself into any shape: animal as for a dog, a bat and/or a snake and even inanimate objects.
...who can change into all sorts of animal forms, including that of a bird, a dog, or a pig. Again,it is frequently said that the favorite victims are young
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...it as a decomposing basking shark. According to a year-end police report, dog bites and stray cats reached an all time high that year.
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...fe of a British official in Basutoland (Lesotho), was with a servant and a dog when they encountered a escaping from her cowshed.
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...wikipedia:Ghost Dog]]'', the title character is confronted by a Fetch-like dog before his death. This same animal seems to act as an omen of major turning
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...sters including Cerberus the three-headed dog, the Hydra, and a two-headed dog named Orthros with whom she conceived the sphinx.
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...e village for a favor and found Odwan the Sheep, Okra the Cat, Okraman the Dog, Akoko the Fowl, and Aberekyie the Goat. Anansi told them of his mother-in-
...Okraman that he would gather a gourd and fill it with water and wished the Dog to do so also; the pair would have water in case their destination lacked i
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...riffon vulture (''Gyps fulvus''), as are list of dog breeds|some breeds of dog (griffons).
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...role, and there is also a [[chimera]], the result of combining a bat and a dog, a reference to [[wikipedia:Ace the Bat-Hound|Ace the Bat-Hound]].
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...lustful Actaeon/Sweeney to the blind Teiresias and, through Sirius, to the Dog "that's friend to men".
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The root was to be picked before dawn on a Friday morning by a black dog, then washed and "fed" with milk and honey and, in some prescriptions, bloo
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