Have you ever heard of the black dog from hell? A dog, or dogs, that stalks at night, dark as a cloud and silent as alone, is presented unexpectedly, its silhouette is barely visible, its howl is able to scare even the bravest one , and his gaze announces the coming death, when not some other misfortune.Do you know what we are talking about? In Mysterious we hear about this Cerberus and we do not resist, between curiosity and intrigue, between fear and suspense, we decided to immediately investigate to see what this legend, or legends, was about this huge hell dog that It appears in the middle of the night, at any time, in any place, with bad omens.Read on to know the legend of these fearsome mythological dogs.
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The black dog of the night, a terrible omen
There is a long tradition about the supposed dogs of hell. In many countries they are called hell dogs, black dogs or ghostly dogs, and they are associated with creatures that always appear in wooded areas or night scenes where they appear wrapped in darkness, blurred almost in the environment but showing a striking muscles and bright eyes, especially those bright eyes capable of chasing you wherever you go, even in dreams.
According to some legends, the appearance of these dogs can precede a death, and even be linked to areas where deaths occurred or tailors in the past, as beasts that guard a memory or charge some curse. The tradition of these dogs is long, very long, so much so that in the Greek underworld there was a dog of similar characteristics , the Cerberus , also called Cancerbero, the three-headed dog that was defeated by Hercules in one of his feats.The race of the Olympus, but not the lands on which the souls of those who had died rested.
Even the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle referred to one of these dogs as a reason for one of his most famous stories , The Hound of the Baskervilles .The story, set in Dartmoor It was based on one Richard Cabell at the same time as a local legend about a ghostly dog, specifically in the Cromer area, where, as they say, there is still a unique animal that travels the existing paths between Overstrand in the east, and East Runton in the west.This is not a cue Stion de forear, then, among the places where these dogs are best known, highlights the United Kingdom, although it is ignored if the legend really began in the lands of Queen Elizabeth II.
In any case , this is not the only literary appearance that the dog has had, as we said, before Cerberus had appeared, nor is England the only place celebrated for owning a dog from hell, but these black dogs have been seen throughout the world , and in each place it has been given a different meaning and legend, although always with great similarities.Here we leave you some of the best known legends about these dogs from hell.
1.The English hell dog
In truth, even in England you can not speak of a single dog from hell, since the myth, very popular in the region, has gained different versions and nuances.They all seem to coincide, however, that it is a huge black dog that seems to bring bad omens. In some versions of this English Cerberus it is said that he appears announcing death , as it happens in so many other versions of this dog, however, in other regions he is spoken of as a benign dog that, far from announcing misfortunes, take care of the forests in which mothers can play with their children in complete safety, because the dog would not allow anything bad to happen to them.
In any case, the different versions seem to agree that it is a large black dog , and that its appearances They are usually nocturnal, among the mist of the night.As we said above, this myth inspired the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, and also had an appearance in the Harry Potter saga, of the author JKRowling, in his third book, The Prisoner of Azcaban, named in this fiction as Grim's dog.
2.The American Cadejo
Within the Mesoamerican culture there is also a legend of the dog of hell, called Cadejo. According to what is said, it is a dog of great size, dark color and bright eyes like the flames of hell, which appears at night dragging chains. According to the Latin American narrative, although anyone is capable of observe the appearance of this dog from hell, the true victim of the omen that brings c Inquire is who is able to hear the jingle of their chains, since whoever listens to them can be sure that death is on their heels.
However, within this tradition there is also talk of a good Cadejo, of white color, that does not appear to torment but rather the opposite, to take care of the man , and that usually protects those who travel alone during the night.The White Cadejo becomes the counterpart of the Cerberus , because this is responsible for protecting those who appear from the evil spirits and designs that the dog of hell embodies.
3.In can ghost catalan
The Catalans also have a version of this legend, Incarnated in the Can Dip, a large and hairy dog that acts as an emissary of the Satanas himself. A peculiarity that differentiates the Catalan legend from the can of hell from the rest of the legends is that Dip is characterized not only by its size and color, or other aspects surrounding its appearance, but for being, also, lame on one leg.
Within the Catalan region the legend of the hell dog Dip is very alive, and its origins go back even to the sixteenth century , which is the date on which his first appearances in painting date, which can make us think that the oral legend may be even older.
In the Catalan version of the can of hell, this cerbero, rather than announcing death, is death itself a, because the Dip is a vampire dog, which feeds on blood.According to the stories, the Dip mainly attacks the cattle, however, the legend says that he also occasionally fed on the unsuspecting drunkards who returned to his House in the middle of the dark night.
4.Welsh hell dog
Within the Welsh version the dog from hell is called Gwyllgi, a large black dog with bright eyes that It is distinguished from other versions by having a breath of fire. This dog also comes from the tradition of another Cerberus, the Ann Ann, another legendary can of these lands and which was spoken in medieval times as a great white dog.
Also the Nordics have a special denomination for the hell dog, the so-called Garm, guard dogs of those boundaries that separate the world of the living of the dead, and even more, of hell itself.
5.The black can of Scotland
In some areas of Es cocia black dogs lack sinister symbology.On the contrary, are treasure guardians, in fact it is believed that one of them guards a treasure buried under a stone in Perthshire. Celtic folklore, meanwhile, He speaks of black dogs or spectral hounds, as beings that can change form and transform into men at their own will, or, rather, men who can become dogs.
6.The Cerberus, the first dog of hell
We close, finally, with the Cerberus, also called Cancerbero, the first dog of hell, typical of Greek mythology and whose legend has endured to this day.Unlike the other legends, The Cerberus was not only a great black dog, but a 3-headed dog, according to the best known versions, and mascot of the very Hades, the god of the underworld. This dog did not roam the world, quite the contrary, it I was in hell, and as Garm, the Nordic, separated the world from the living from the world of the dead , taking care that the souls did not escape back to the bodies, but also that the bodies that still if they had a soul they would approach the underworld.It was, therefore, a guard dog, terrifying in itself, but not that it sought to terrorize anyone outside its confines, nor that it would go to the world to cast bad omens.
Although its legend is not in force and is not currently thought of in the Cerberus but with Like a mythological dog, His appearance on this list is not unimportant, since it is from these old myths where the new ones were born, and it is possible to observe the contrast or similarities they present. The same thing happens with Garm, the Nordic hell dog, typical of the Scandinavian culture that little came to be related to the Greek, with which, however, it maintained great similarities.
Well, here we come in our account of legends about the dog of hell, this great Cerberus capable of scaring anyone and that brings with him the worst designs, according to most of the legends.But also, as we saw, a dog that can be protective, that comes to us to protect us: they are things of the cultures, because it is possible that in the end it was not any of this, but a dog that was enlarged with fear, a story that ran from those years in which myths and legends ruled the world and they still follow by Hi, reminding us of what we were.
We hope you liked our article.Do you know any other dog from hell? Do you know of another legend that we should include in this list? Leave your opinion in the comments, we will be looking forward to reading you!
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