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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 .
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Mythological dogs (6 C, 65 P) F. Mythological foxes (2 C, 12 P) W. Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology (8 C, ...
Chalkydri – heavenly creatures of the Sun; Chamrosh (Persian mythology) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird; Cinnamon bird – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon; Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death; Gagana – a miraculous bird with an iron beak and copper claws
Qiqirn is a large, bald dog spirit in Inuit mythology, from around the area of Baffin Island. It has hair only on its feet, mouth and the tips of its ears and tail. Its presence will send men and dogs into convulsions, sometimes fatal. However, it is frightened of humans and will run away if an angakkuq sees it. [1]
Tiangou from the Shan Hai Jing. The tiangou (Chinese: 天狗; pinyin: tiāngǒu; Wade–Giles: t'ien 1-kou 3; lit. 'Heavenly Dog') is a legendary creature from China.The tiangou resembles a black dog or meteor, and is thought to eat the Sun or Moon during an eclipse.
The phenomenon of inugami spiritual possession was a kojutsu (also called "kodō" or "kodoku", a greatly feared ritual for employing the spirits of certain animals) that was already banned in the Heian period that was thought to have spread throughout the population, and it was known to involve cutting off the head of a starving dog and burying the dog at a crossroads to inflame its grudges as ...
In one version of Laelaps' origin story, it was a gift from Zeus to Europa. The hound was passed down to King Minos , who gave it as a reward to the Athenian princess Procris . She obtained it by sleeping with him, after drugging him with a drink from the Circean root, which came from a plant of the milkweed family .
The dogs are described as being mostly white, with purple haunches, a crimson tail, blue feet, and standing as tall as Fionn's shoulder. [2] Bran is normally male, while Sceólang is normally female, although there definitely is a version by Soinbhe Lally, where Bran is female, and Sceolang's sex is unconfirmed. [ 3 ]