Thomas Dyer - The Ghost World

In most parts of England there is a popular belief in a spectral dog, which is generally described as ‘large, shaggy, and black, with long ears and tail. It does not belong to any species of living dogs, but is severally said to represent a hound, a setter, a terrier, or a shepherd dog, though often larger than a Newfoundland.’ 117 117 Book of Days , ii. p. 433. It is commonly supposed to be a bad spirit, haunting places where evil deeds have been done, or where some calamity may be expected. In Lancashire, this spectre-dog is known as ‘Trash’ and ‘Striker,’ 118 118 See Harland and Wilkinson’s Lancashire Folk-lore , p. 91. its former name having been applied to it from the peculiar noise made by its feet, which is supposed to resemble that of a person walking along a miry, sloppy road, with heavy shoes; and its latter appellation from its uttering a curious screech, which is thought to warn certain persons of the approaching death of some relative or friend. If followed, it retreats with its eyes fronting its pursuer, and either sinks into the ground with a frightful shriek, or in some mysterious manner disappears. When struck, the weapon passes through it as if it were a mere shadow. In Norfolk and Cambridgeshire this apparition is known to the peasantry by the name of ‘shuck’ – the provincial word for ‘shag’ – and is reported to haunt churchyards and other lonely places. A dreary lane in the parish of Overstrand is called from this spectral animal ‘Shuck’s Lane,’ and it is said that if the spot where it has been seen be examined after its disappearance, it will be found to be scorched, and strongly impregnated with the smell of brimstone. Mrs. Latham tells 119 119 ‘West Sussex Superstitions,’ Folk-lore Record , i. p. 23.

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xxiii. 100; Keary’s Outlines of Primitive Belief , p. 284.

The Three Principles , chap. xix. ‘Of the Going Forth of the Soul.’

Letourneau’s Sociology , p. 252.

Primitive Culture , 1873, i. p. 457.

1st S. ii. p. 51.

Letourneau’s Sociology , p. 257.

Tylor’s Primitive Culture , i. p. 433; Brinton’s Myths of the New World , p. 253.

Harland and Wilkinson’s Lancashire Folk-lore , 1867, p. 210.

1st S. i. p. 315.

Cf. ‘Nexosque resolveret artus,’ Virgil on the death of Dido. Æneid iv. 695.

See Dalyell’s Darker Superstitions of Scotland , p. 302, and Notes and Queries , 1st S. iv. p. 350.

Ibid. i. p. 467.

1st S. iii. p. 84.

Kelly’s Indo-European Folk-lore , pp. 127-128.

Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions , p. 43.

In a note to Redgauntlet , Letter xi.

Folk-lore Record , i. pp. 59-60.

Timon of Athens , iv. 3.

Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties , pp. 60-61.

See Tylor’s Primitive Culture , i. p. 145.

Iliad , ii. 852.

Illustrations of Shakspeare , 1839, pp. 324-326.

Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions , p. 40.

Tylor’s Anthropology , 1881, p. 343.

See further instances in Tylor’s Primitive Culture , i. pp. 440, 441.

Fiji and the Fijians , i. p. 242.

See Sir John Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man , 1870, p. 141.

Werewolves , p. 29.

See Chapter on Second Sight.

See Tylor’s Anthropology , p. 345; and Sir John Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man , p. 141; and H. Spencer’s Principles of Sociology , 1885, i. p. 777.

Principles of Sociology , 1885, i. p. 174.

De Anima , p. 9; see Tylor’s Primitive Culture , i. p. 456.

Principles of Sociology , 1885, i. p. 174.

See Tylor’s Primitive Culture , i. p. 457.

Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions , p. 20.

Tylor’s Primitive Culture , i. p. 456.

Letourneau’s Sociology , p. 253.

See Tylor’s Anthropology , 1881, p. 344.

Nineteenth Century , July 1885, pp. 143-144, ‘Transylvanian Superstitions,’ by Madame Emily de Laszowska Gerard.

Ralston’s Songs of the Russian People , p. 117.

Myths and Dreams , 1885, p. 184.

Myths and Myth-makers , 1873, p. 225.

See Hunt’s Popular Romances of the West of England , p. 373.

Fasti , v. 457.

Primitive Superstitions , p. 195.

The Origin of Civilisation, and the Primitive Condition of Man , 1870, p. 140; see Letourneau’s Sociology , p. 263.

Brinton’s Myths of the New World , 1868, p. 257.

Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions , 1881, p. 193.

See Lecky’s Rationalism in Europe , 1870, i. p. 340; cf. Maury’s Légendes Pieuses , p. 124.

Primitive Culture , i. p. 455.

See Andrew Lang’s Myth, Ritual, Religion , i. p. 108.

Odyssey , xxiv.

Tylor’s Primitive Culture , i. p. 451.