Among the Black Dogs, I think Black Shuck with it’s one eye is up there under the scary ones. At least for me. Folklore English Fairy and Other Folk Tales by Edwin Sidney Hartland [1890] SPECTRE-DOGS NEITHER Brand in his Popular Antiquities, nor Sir Walter Scott in his Witchcraft and Demonology, mentions spectre-dogs as a peculiar class …
There’s not a lot of folklore (that’s not the same source reused in various ways) of the Aufhocker on the internet or even in folklore books. The only original folklore of this creature is in German (and in print books), so I couldn’t access those. But this shapeshifting Black Dog is quite interesting. Folklore The …
H is for Herald. herald n person who announces important news; forerunner v signal the approach of (Collins English Dictionary) I love using black dogs in my writing. Today we’re looking at the Grim. Folklore The Magic of the Horse-Shoe With Other Folk-Lore Notes by Robert Means Lawrence [1898] SPIRITS ASSUME THE FORMS OF BLACK …
