The green hound is a mark of fairy dogs in West Highland belief. The shepherd's dogs were afraid, which Campbell treats as the sign. No place is given more closely than Lorn.
Beasts & cryptids
The Green-backed Pups, Lorn
A rock in Lorn
Recorded 1900
- Evidence
- Single witness account
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 56.400, -5.400 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: John Gregorson Campbell, Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (1900), Project Gutenberg [public-domain]
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