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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 381 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

GABRIEL HOUNDS , a spectral See also:

pack supposed in the See also:

North of See also:

England to foretell See also:

DEATH

death by their yelping at See also:

NIGHT

night. The See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend is that they are the souls of unbaptized See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children wandering through the See also:

air till the See also:

day of See also:

JUDGMENT

judgment. They are also some-times called Gabriel or Gabble Ratchet. A very prosaic ex-planation of this nocturnal See also:

NOISE (a word of doubtful origin; O. Fr. nogse or nose; Prov. nausa, which points to Lat. nausea, sickness, as the origin; others take Lat. noxia, harm, as the source)

noise is given by J. C. See also:

Atkinson in his See also:

Cleveland Glossary (1868). "This," he writes, " is the name for a yelping See also:

sound heard at night, more or less resembling the cry of hounds or yelping of See also:

DOGS, ISLE OF

dogs, probably due to large flocks of See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild geese which See also:

CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

chance to be flying by night." See further See also:

Joseph See also:

Lucas, Studies in Nidderdale (1882), pp. 156-157.

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