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This is a list of dogs from mythology, including dogs, beings who manifest themselves as dogs, beings whose anatomy includes dog parts, and so on. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological dogs .
Penghou – tree spirit that appears like a black dog and tastes like dog-meat (Chinese) Psoglav - (Bosnia) humanoid monster with dog's head, horse's legs, one eye and iron teeth. Salawa – the "Typhonian Animal," a slender, vaguely canine-animal that is the totemic animal of Set; Sigbin – is a creature in Philippine mythology (Philippines)
The legend has been referenced many times in popular culture. One of the most famous ghostly black dogs in fiction appears in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, where a large dog-like creature haunts a family estate. Sherlock Holmes is brought in to determine if the dog is in fact real or supernatural. This story makes use ...
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The black cadejo is malevolent and lures people to make bad choices. The black cadejo has glowing purple eyes and eats newborn babies. The book Los perros mágicos de los volcanes (Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes), by Manlio Argueta, describes the cadejos as mythical dog-like creatures that figure prominently in the folklore of El Salvador. They ...
Dog-headed creatures appear in role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. The Vargr [41] in the game Traveller are a notable example. Terry Jones's book The Saga of Erik the Viking features a fearsome race of dog-faced warriors. In Scott Adams' cartoon Dilbert, the title character once dated a dog-headed woman.
The gwyllgi (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡwɪɬɡi]; compound noun of either gwyllt "wild" or gwyll "twilight" + ci "dog" [1]) is a mythical dog from Wales that appears as a frightful apparition of a mastiff or Black Wolf (similar to a Dire wolf) with baleful breath and blazing red eyes. [2] It is the Welsh incarnation of the black dog figure of ...