Barnoldby-le-Beck Shag-foal
‘An old lady used to talk of a mysterious phantom like an animal of deep black colour, which appeared before belated travellers. On hearing that we had been attacked at midnight by a large dog, she eagerly inquired: ‘Had it any white about it?’ and when we assured her that it had a white chest, she exclaimed in thankfulness: ‘Ah! then it was not the shag-foal!’. — Antiquary, vol. xiv., p. 1 1. [Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning Lincolnshire by Eliza Gutch, Mabel Peacock (1908)]
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