Another of the sinister North Country spirits, a form of the trash or skriker. Like the Trash it is a death portent, but instead of appearing like a shaggy dog with saucer eyes, it takes the shape of an evil cow. Mrs Wright mentions it in Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore (p.194), but it is not mentioned by William Henderson, nor in the Denham Tracts. It is possible that she may have learnt of it orally from her husband. Professor Wright of the great Dialect Dictionary.

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