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This is a list of fictional dogs from literature, movies etc. This is an incomplete list . It may never be fully completed or, depending on its nature, it may be that it can never be complete. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome.
1 Legendary, mythical and fairytale dogs
- 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
- Cabal, King Arthur's dog
- Canes Venatici, constellation of the hunting dogs
- CerberusFor the snake genus Cerberus see Cerberus (snake). For the monster from the computer game Blood see Blood (computer game) In Greek mythology, Cerberus (from , Kerberos demon of the pit , was the hound of Hades—a monstrous three- headed dog (sometimes said (demon of the pit), the hound of HadesHades ( Greek: ‘ Haides or ‘δης Hades ("unseen") means both the ancient Greek abode of the dead and the god of that Underworld. Haidou was the genitive form of the word, meaning "the house of Hades"; its nominative form, Haides was origin in Greek mythologyGreek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods and goddesses and ancient heroes and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. Our surviving sources of mythology are either transcriptions of this spoken word, o (also his brother, OrthrusIn Greek mythology, Orthrus was a two-headed dog, brother of Cerberus, owned by Geryon. He guarded Geryon's herd of red cattle until Heracles killed Geryon and took the cattle.)
- ChontamentiIn Egyptian mythology, Chontamenti (also Khentamenti Khentimentiu was an underworld ( Duat) god depicted as having a dog's head (plus horns), or occasionally as an ordinary dog himself. Death gods Egyptian gods., in Egyptian mythologyEgyptian mythology (or Egyptian religion is the name for the succession of beliefs held by the people of Egypt until the coming of Christianity and Islam. The timespan involved is nearly three thousand years, and beliefs varied considerably over time, so
- DipIn Catalan myth, Dip is an evil, black, hairy dog, an emissary of the Devil, who sucks people's blood. Like other figures associated with demons in Catalan myth, he is lame in one leg. Dip is pictured on the escutcheon of Pratdip. See also Black Shuck Bar, in Catalan mythCatalan myths and legends are the traditional myths and legends of the Catalan-speaking world, especially Catalonia itself, passed down for generations as part of that region's popular culture. Among the figures of Catalan mythology are: Aloja Catalan myt
- Fenris, a monstrous wolf, offspring of Loki and Angrboda in Norse mythology
- Fu Dog, Chinese guardians
- Gabriel Hounds ( Cwn Annwn), ghost hounds of the land of the dead
- Garm, a four-eyed dog that guarded Helheim in Norse mythology
- Hecate, in Greek mythology
- Laelaps, in Greek mythology
- Marea, in Greek mythology
- Sirius, in Greek mythology
- 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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