Black Dog Folklore by Mark Norman

Trade paperback. Apparitions of ghostly Black Dogs have been seen in England for nearly a millennium and yet a comprehensive information source has never been published. Author and researcher Mark Norman (Devon, UK) delves deep into the largest Black Dog archive in England, providing a comprehensive study of sightings with an extensive gazetteer of over 750 eyewitness sightings as well as references from folklore traditions. -- A comprehensive study of the image of the Black Dog in folklore, with an extensive gazetteer of over 700 UK sightings and traditions. The study of folklore is very often the examination of symbolism and symbolic interpretation changes over time. Many ghosts appear or behave in a way that seems less naturalistic than symbolic and this is certainly true of the image of the Black Dog. It is telling that apparitions of ghostly Black Dogs have been sighted, felt, heard and experienced in an unnatural way by people for nearly a millennium now and yet people stumble