Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1908 — “House of the Baskervilles.” [ARTICLE]

“House of the Baskervilles.”

Conan Doyle’s “Hound of the Baskervilles,’’ a “fearsome animal,” Is said to have ite origin In the legends of packs of spectral hounds, which are popular in various parts of England and Wales. In the North of England these apparitions are known as “Gabriel’s nounds;’’ in Devon, the “Wisk,” “West, or “Heath hounds;” in Wales, “Cron Annwn,” or “Own Wybir,” and in Cornwall, the “devil’s dandy dogs.” They are supposed to be evil spirits hunting the souls of the dead