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| '''Gabriel Hounds''' or '''Gabble Retchets''' are a pack of spectral hounds said to be haunting Britain during the [[Wild Hunt]].
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| ==Origin==
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| The [[Wild Hunt]].was often accompanied by the baying of hounds. Sometimes other sounds could be misinterpreted.
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| The cries and wing-beats of birds are sometimes mistaken to be the baying of super terrestrial spirits or [[ghost]]s, a pack of spectral hounds, sometimes called ''sky yelpers'', sometimes the ''Gabriel Ratchets''.
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| ===Etymology===
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| ''Ratchet'' is the archaic term to describe a hound hunting by scent.
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| ===Description===
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| The dogs was known as the '''Gabriel Hounds''' in Lancashire.
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| The pack was described as monstrous dogs with human heads who travelled flying in the air.
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| When the hounds were seen hovering on a house, it would foretell death or misfortune to its inhabitants.
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| ==See Also==
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| *[[Bran and Sgeolan]], Fionn Mac Cumhal’s hounds in Celtic lore
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| *[[Cwn Annwn]], or '''Hounds of Hell''', and [[Annwn]], their [[Underworld]];
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| *[[Cusith]], the fairy dog
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| *[[Devil's Dandy Dogs]], or '''Dando Dogs'''
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| *[[Hounds of the Hills]]
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| *[[Fairy Raed]]
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| *[[Norse Wild Hunt]]
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| *[[Sluagh]] or '''Fairy Host'''
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| *[[Wild Hunt]]
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| *[[Wandering Jew]]
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| ==External links ==
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| *[http://www.monstrous.com Monstrous]
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| *[http://www.deardeath.com/the_hunt_through_cultures_and_.htm Wild Hunt]
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| [[Category:Fairy animals]]
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| [[Category:English mythology]]
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