The Devil’s Dandy-dogs

In Cornwall the phantom pack heard in the sky on wild nights was called the Devil and his Dandy-dogs. Chambers gives the story of a herdsman crossing the moors who heard them coming after him, and turned to see a black, horned huntsman with fiery eyes and a pack of fire-snorting hounds. With no shelter anywhere, he remembered that no evil spirit could stand against prayer and fell to his knees, at which the hounds stopped and the huntsman called them off. Chambers himself put such stories down to flocks of wild geese passing overhead.