Barghest, Bargtjest, Bo-guest or Bargest is the name given in the north of England, especially in Yorkshire, to a mythical monstrous black dog with huge teeth and claws. One is said to frequent a remote gorge named Troller's Gill. There is also a story of a Barghest entering the city of York occasionally, where, according to legend, it preys on lone travellers in the city's narrow Snickelways. Whitby is also associated with the spectre.^[1] Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is God Save the Queen. See also Proposed English National Anthems. ... Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The monstrous black dog reputed to haunt Bouley Bay in Jersey is depicted on this pub sign A black dog is a spectral being found primarily in British folklore. ... Trollers Gill Trollers Gill is a limestone gorge, close to the village of Appletreewick in the Yorkshire Dales (grid reference SE068619). ... York shown within England Coordinates: , Sovereign state Constituent country Region Yorkshire and the Humber Ceremonial county North Yorkshire Admin HQ York City Centre Founded 71 City Status 71 Government  - Type Unitary Authority, City  - Governing body City of York Council  - Leadership: Leader & Executive  - Executive: Liberal Democrat  - MPs: Hugh Bayley (L) John... The Snickelways of York (often misspelt Snickleways) are a collection of small streets and footpaths in the city of York, England. ... Whitby is a historic town in North Yorkshire on the north-east coast of England. ...

The derivation of the word barghest is disputed. Ghost in the north of England was once pronounced guest, and the name is thought to be burh-ghest: town-ghost. Others explain it as German Berg-geist (mountain spirit), or Bär-geist (bear-spirit), in allusion to its alleged appearance at times as a bear. Another mooted derivation is 'Bier-Geist', the 'spirit of the funeral bier'. An artists interpretation of a ghostly woman on a flight of stairs, based on common descriptions A ghost is usually defined as the apparition of a deceased person, frequently similar in appearance to that person, and encountered in places she or he frequented, or in association with the person...

The Barghest in popular culture

Many stories, perhaps most notably The Hound of the Baskervilles, feature ghostly black dogs. See Black dog (ghost) for further details. Dogs specifically named as barghests appear in the following: FUCK!  :D The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally serialized in the Strand Magazine in 1901 and 1902, which is set largely on Dartmoor in 1889. ... The monstrous black dog reputed to haunt Bouley Bay in Jersey is depicted on this pub sign A black dog is a spectral being found primarily in British folklore. ...

Literature

In the novel by Bram Stoker, when arriving at Whitby aboard the ship Demeter, Dracula takes the form of a big and ferocious dark dog. The barghest is part of Whitby folklore, and may well have been Stoker's inspiration. Abraham Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912) was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. ... Whitby is a historic town in North Yorkshire on the north-east coast of England. ... Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. ...

Also inspired by this legend, the barghest also appears in the children's book The Whitby Witches by Robin Jarvis. Robin Jarvis (born May 8, 1963) is a British childrens novelist, who wrote fantasy novels, often about anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals - especially mice - and Tudor times. ...

The barghest is depicted as a shapeshifting beast in Sojourn, written by R.A. Salvatore. (It should be noted that most of R.A. Salvatore's literary inspiration comes from the pen and paper RPG Dungeons and Dragons) R. A. Salvatore is a science-fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and Forgotten Realms novels. ... RPG is an abbreviation with several different meanings: RPG programming language, is a native programming language for IBMs iSeries servers RPG Life Sciences, is an Indian Pharmaceutical Company Role-playing game, in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create narratives Tabletop role-playing game, also called... The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ...

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Comic book publisher Barghest Entertainment takes its name from the legendary demon-dog.

Film and TV

The Barghest is the main villain in the children's TV series Roger and the Rottentrolls, which is set in Troller's Gill. Roger and the Rottentrolls first Video release Roger and the Rottentrolls (sometimes, but not in the title sequence or on DVD covers, called just The Rottentrolls) was a childrens comedy television series made for ITV by The Childrens Company, which combined puppets with live action human actors. ...

The 1978 made-for-TV movie Devil Dog: Hound of Hell features a barghest named Lucky. Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...

In an episode of the BBC drama series Dalziel and Pascoe, a public house situated on the North York Moors which the episode's plot revolves around is named 'The Barguest', and features a large black dog on its sign. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (usually known as Andy) and Detective Sergeant (later Detective Inspector) Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill that became a BBC television series, also named Dalziel and Pascoe. ... A View of the North York Moors The North York Moors (also known as the North Yorkshire Moors) is a national park in North Yorkshire, England. ...

Role-playing games

Barghests feature in:

• Dungeons and Dragons (see Barghest (Dungeons & Dragons))
• Exalted
• World of Darkness
• Wraith: the Oblivion
• Shadowrun (see Barghest - Sixth World Wiki)
• BattleTech - as the name of a 'Mech. Incidentally, both Shadowrun and BattleTech are owned by FanPro.
• Dark Conspiracy

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Video games

Barghests, or creatures similar to it, appear in:

• Lord of the Rings Online
• The Monster Rancher series.
• Fire Emblem
• Chrono Trigger.
• The Pokémon video game series (from the third generation onwards there is a Pokémon based on a white barghest called Absol).
• Final Fantasy XII
• Wild Arms 2 as a minor enemy faced inside the prison.
• Icewind Dale II

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See also

• Black dog (ghost), a list & names of phantom black dogs by locale
• Wild Hunt

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References

1. ^ Jeffrey Shaw, Whitby Lore and Legend, (1923)

• Wirt Sikes, British Goblins (1880); Notes and Queries, first series, ii. 51;
• Joseph Ritson, Fairy Tales (Lond. 1831), p. 58;
• Lancashire Folklore (1867);
• Joseph Lucas, Studies in Nidderdale (Pateley Bridge, 1882).

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