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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 .
Articles relating to the black dogs, supernatural, spectral, or demonic hellhounds originating from English folklore. They have also been seen throughout Europe and the Americas. They are usually unnaturally large with glowing red eyes or yellow eyes.
Goddess Hel and the hellhound Garmr by Johannes Gehrts, 1889. A hellhound is a mythological hound that embodies a guardian or a servant of hell, the devil, or the underworld.. Hellhounds occur in mythologies around the world, with the best-known examples being Cerberus from Greek mythology, Garmr from Norse mythology, the black dogs of English folklore, and the fairy hounds of Celtic mythol
A black dog is said to have appeared to wrestlers at Whiteborough, a tumulus near Launceston. [36] A black dog was once said to haunt the main road between Bodmin and Launceston near Linkinhorne. [37] During the 1800s, a Cornish mining accident resulted in numerous deaths and led to the local area being haunted by a pack of black dogs. [38]
Shvana (Sanskrit: श्वान, romanized: Śvāna), a Sanskrit word meaning a dog, finds repeated references in Vedic and later Hindu mythology, and such references include the following: The female dog of Indra, a Vedic god, is named Sarama, and it is mentioned in the Rigveda. Its offspring became the watchdogs of Yama, Sharvara and Shyama.
Baleia, the dog-companion that follows a poor family throughout the hardships of the 1915-drought in Brazil in Vidas secas, by Graciliano Ramos; Quincas Borba, the dog whose name is the same as his human's in Machado de Assis' Quincas Borba; Tentação, the dog in the homonymous short-story by Clarice Lispector
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