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BARGHEST, BARGUEST

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BARGHEST, BARGUEST or BARGEST, the name given in the See also:north of See also:England, especially in See also:Yorkshire, to a monstrous goblin-See also:dog with huge See also:teeth and claws, The spectre-See also:hound under various names is See also:familiar in folk-See also:lore. The Demon of Tedworth, the See also:Black Dog of See also:Winchester and the Padfoot of See also:Wakefield all shared the characteristics of the Barghest of See also:York. In See also:Wales its See also:counter-See also:part was Gwyllgi, "the Dog of Darkness," a frightful apparition of a mastiff with baleful breath and blazing red eyes. In See also:Lancashire the spectre-hound is called Trash or Striker. In See also:Cambridge-See also:shire and on the See also:Norfolk See also:coast it is known as Shuck or See also:Shock. In the Isle of See also:Man it is styled Mauthe Doug. It is mentioned by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott in " The See also:Lay of the Last See also:Minstrel " For he was speechless, ghastly, wan Like him of whom the See also:story ran Who spoke the spectre hound in Man."A Welsh variant is the Cwn Annuls, or "See also:dogs of See also:hell." The barghest was essentially a nocturnal spectre, and its See also:appearance was regarded as a portent of See also:death. Its Welsh See also:form is confined to the See also:sea-coast parishes, and on the Norfolk coast the creature is supposed to be amphibious, coming out of the sea by See also:night and travelling about the lonely lanes. The derivation of the word barghest is disputed. " See also:Ghost " in the north of England is pronounced " See also:guest," and the name is thought to be burh-ghest, " See also:town-ghost." Others explain it as See also:German See also:Berg-geest, " See also:mountain demon," or See also:Bar-geest, " See also:bear-demon," in allusion to its alleged appearance at times as a bear. The barghest has a kinsman in the Rongeur d'Os of See also:Norman See also:folklore. A belief in the spectre-hound still lingers in the See also:wild parts of the north See also:country of England, and in Nidderdale, Yorkshire, nurses frighten See also:children with its name.

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British Goblins (188o) ; Notes and Queries, first See also:series, ii. 51; See also:Joseph See also:Ritson, See also:Fairy Tales (Lond. 1831), p. 58; Lancashire Folklore (1867); Joseph See also:Lucas, Studies in Nidderdale (Pateley See also:Bridge, 1882).

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