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The Moddey Dhoo 〔:"Moddey Dhoo (pronounced ''Mauthe Doo'') signifying in English, the 'Black Dog'".〕 (Manx Gaelic, meaning "black dog")〔〔: "They say, that an Apparition called, in their language, the ''Mauthe Doog'', etc.〕〔 is a phantom black hound in Manx folklore that reputedly haunted Peel Castle on the west coast of the Isle of Man.〔 The Manx name Moddey Dhoo was transcribed as Mauthe Doog ( by an influential 18th-Century English-speaking folklore source, which led to a history of misspellings of the proper name. ==Old Legend== The English topographer and poet George Waldron seems to be the sole definitive written authority of this folklore localized in the castle.〔 Waldron transcribes the original Manx name "Moddey Dhoo" as "Mauthe Doog", and describes the dog thus: There used to be a passage connected to the Peel Castle, traversing the church grounds, leading to the apartment of the Captain of the Guard, and "the ''Mauthe Doog'' was always seen to come from that passage at the close of day, and return to it again as soon as the morning dawned".〔, p.24, "I forgot to mention..", etc.〕 Waldron reports that one drunken guard of the castle, who in defiance of the dog, went against the usual procedure of locking up the castle gate in pairs and did this all alone. Emboldened by liquor, he "snatched up the keys" when it wasn't even his turn to do so. The watchman after locking up was supposed to use the haunted passage to deliver the keys to the captain. Some noises were heard, the adventurer returned to the guard-room, ghastly frightened, unable to share the story of what he had seen, and died three days later. That was the last sighting of the dog. But the passage was sealed up and never used again after the haunting, and a different pathway constructed. The dog was made known to the world at large when Sir Walter Scott introduced the "Manthe Dog -- a fiend, or demon, in the shape of a large, shaggy, black mastiff" in ''Peveril of the Peak'' (1823), an installment of his Waverley novels.〔, Peveril of the Peak, I, p.241〕 Here he freely adapted the folklore to suit his plot, but Scott derived knowledge of this folklore through Waldron's work (see below), as he candidly gave credit in his "author's notes".〔 (Lang's edition of 1893), p.295ff.〕 Note how Scott took liberty to scale up the size of the dog in his novel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moddey Dhoo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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