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Sidney Paget's illustration of The Hound of the Baskervilles.The story was inspired by a legend of ghostly black dogs in Dartmoor. The black dog is a supernatural, spectral, or demonic hellhound originating from English folklore, and also present in folklore throughout Europe and the Americas.
"Black Dog" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It is the first track on the band's untitled fourth album (1971), which has become one of the best-selling albums of all time. [ 6 ] The song was released as a single and reached the charts in many countries.
Black Dog (Chinese: 狗阵; pinyin: Gou Zhen) is a 2024 Chinese drama film directed by Guan Hu, starring Eddie Peng and Tong Liya. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The film had its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2024, where it won the Un Certain Regard prize.
Black Dog, a bio-robot in the 1982 Bulgarian animated science fiction film The Treasure Planet; The Black Dog, an inn in 2015–2016 British drama TV series The Coroner; Black Dog, a pirate in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island; Black Dogs, a group of students in the Boarding School Juliet manga series
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 ...
As to the version where the black dog is described "as big as a calf and with eyes like pewter plates" (Killip 1976), [4] [11] this seems to derive from a report of a modern sighting of the calf-sized dog , combined with the description of the eyes of a troll in Asbjornsen and Moe's Norwegian folktale collection.
Intended as a morality tale preaching against the low behaviour and base living of the inmates of the prison, during a period when conditions for inmates were particularly horrific, the story was allegedly recounted by Luke Hutton to a stranger only described as a poor Thin-gut fellow in the Black Dog Public House. [4]
"The Black Dog" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department (2024). She and Jack Antonoff produced the song, which is a slow-building post-industrial ballad instrumented by sparse piano.