✦ Folklore Map of Britain & Ireland ✦Myths, Legends & Spectral EncountersAcross the islands a great spectral hound haunts the lonely lane, the churchyard and the parish boundary — Black Shuck in East Anglia, the Barghest of the north, the Cù Sìth of the Highlands. Almost always larger than any living dog, with eyes like coals, it is most often an omen: to meet its gaze was said to foretell a death within the year.