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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 .
Adopt Me! revolves around adopting and caring for a variety of different types of pets, which hatch from eggs. [7] Specific eggs hatch different pets. A Starter Egg, which is given to a player when they begin to play for the first time, for example hatches only a dog or a cat. Some pets can only be purchased with Roblox ' s virtual currency ...
Gelert by Charles Burton Barber (c.1894). Gelert (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡɛlɛrt]) is a legendary hound in a Welsh folk-tale.He is associated with the village of Beddgelert in Gwynedd in north-west Wales, the name of which was formerly believed to mean "Gelert's grave". [1]
Orthrus – two headed dog, father/brother of Cerberus (Greek) 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
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 ...
A cynocephalus. From the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493).. The characteristic of cynocephaly, or cynocephalus (/ s aɪ n oʊ ˈ s ɛ f ə l i /), having the head of a canid, typically that of a dog or jackal, is a widely attested mythical phenomenon existing in many different forms and contexts.
Dogs specifically named as barghests appear in the following: The barghest appears in the children's book The Whitby Witches by Robin Jarvis. In Roald Dahl's The Witches, the barghest is described as always being male. Neil Gaiman's short story "Black Dog" features a barghest in the form of a huge black dog which has occult powers.
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...