Wish Hound
Wish Hound: Black Dog of southern England.
Variant names:
Wisht hound, Witch hound, Yell hound, Yeth hound.
Physical description:
Often headless.
Behaviour:
Active on dark, stormy nights.
Distribution:
Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, and Sussex.
Sources:
- Robert Hunt, ed., Popular Romances of the West of England (London: John Camden Hotten, 1865);
- John Lloyd Warden Page, An Exploration of Dartmoor and Its Antiquities (London: Seeley, 1889);
- Ruth E. Saint Leger-Gordon, Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor (New York: Bell, 1972), pp. 26–41, 188;
- Katharine M. Briggs, A Dictionary of Fairies (London: Allen Lane, 1976), p. 440
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SOURCE:
Mysterious Creatures – A Guide to Cryptozoology written by George M. Eberhart – Copyright © 2002 by George M. Eberhart