Legendary, mythical and fairytale dogs

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Odysseus and Argos

  • Argos, Odysseus's dog.
  • Anubis, Ancient Egyptian god with a dog's (or a jackal's) head
  • Barghest, English goblin-dog
  • Black Shuck, British hound of hell
  • Bran, Fionn mac Cumhail's hound
  • Cabal, King Arthur's dog
  • Canis Major and Canis Minor, Orion's hunting dogs
  • Canes Venatici, constellation of the hunting dogs
  • Cerberus (demon of the pit), the hound of Hades in Greek mythology (also his brother, Orthrus)
  • Cwn Annwn (Gabriel Hounds), ghost hounds of the land of the dead
  • Dip, in Catalan myth
  • Fenris, a monstrous wolf, offspring of Loki and Angrboda in Norse mythology
  • Fu Dog, Chinese guardians
  • Garm, a four-eyed dog that guarded Helheim in Norse mythology
  • Gelert, a dog belonging to Llywelyn the Great which gave its name to Beddgelert in Wales
  • Hecuba, in Greek mythology, the Queen of Troy, turned into a fierce dog
  • Laelaps, in Greek mythology
  • Marea, in Greek mythology
  • Sirius, in Greek mythology, and star in Canis Major
  • Scylla, in Greek mythology
  • Qiqirn, in Inuit mythology
  • Xolotl, in Aztec mythology
  • The Wolf, from Little Red Riding Hood in Grimm's Fairy Tales

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