lordmongrove
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Mark Norman on black dogs
I haven't yet seen the video, but I have the book seen there. It contains all the errors one expects in a self published effort that needed more proofreading - at least my edition did - but I remember there being a lot in it.Mark Norman on black dogs
Getting good proofreading is a nightmare. Mistakes always seem to slip through.I haven't yet seen the video, but I have the book seen there. It contains all the errors one expects in a self published effort that needed more proofreading - at least my edition did - but I remember there being a lot in it.
Like I said, there was a lot in this book, and I think any decent armchair folklorist or fortean will overlook those issues to absorb the information therein. I read it some time ago and can't remember specifics, but I remember enjoying the book a great deal. I still haven't watched the video.Getting good proofreading is a nightmare. Mistakes always seem to slip through.
Dogs
I was reminded of a story a friend of mine told. He was working for Historic Scotland and was on a tour of his new post. Curator of St Andrews Cathedral no less. The bloke he took over from was showing him all the neuks and crannies of rubble and kirk... opening old doors and generally giving him the Full Works tour.
When they came across yet another heavy wooden door set in the boundary wall, when this was opened a dog bounded out and ran at some speed past them. My friend was a little ruffled by this sudden unexpected dog but had put it down to the dog getting locked in by accident maybe the night before. The old curator was standing their crossing himself. Whats the matter my friend asked. The old curator said that the door had not been unlocked in the past 3 or 4 years and there was simply no way it could have gained entry to the room by any other means. And right enough the room in the wall did not have any other means of entry, just four stone walls and a heavy wooden normally locked door.
The dog was not black but white or fair in coloured and he described it as a large long haired dog.
I wonder if their are a lot of Ghost dogs but you only notice them normally if they look large and black like the previous entries
Twenty-first century newspaper stories report that the ghost of the murdered George Ogilvy, 3rd Lord Banff, haunts the castle.[18] Nigel Tranter visited Inchdrewer again in the 1970s and a large white dog, which he speculated may have been a Samoyed, bounded out of the castle as he approached it with a local builder. Unable to explain how the dog could have been confined in the castle for seven days, he was later sent a copy of the magazine Vogue, in which it was stated that the castle was "haunted by a lady in the shape of a white dog".[32]