Gytrash BrE , also: Guytrash BrE

But no Gytrash appeared she says, just a trapper taking a short cut.

Appearing in the shape of horses, mules, or dogs, the Gytrash haunt solitary ways and lead people astray.

No Gytrash was this,--only a traveller taking the short cut to Millcote.

Gytrash (Northern England)

It crosses Jane's mind that perhaps she is seeing a Gytrash--a supernatural being that attacks travelers after dark.

Instead, all alone, sitting upright on the rug, and gazing with gravity at the blaze, I beheld a great black and white long-haired dog, just like the Gytrash of the lane.

In Lancashire, the black hound is called Barguist, Gytrash, Padfoot, the Grim, Shag, Trash, Striker or Skriker.

Nothing ever rode the Gytrash: it was always alone; and goblins, to my notions, though they might tenant the dumb carcasses of beasts, could scarce covet shelter in the commonplace human form.

The Gytrash's emergence as Rochester's innocuous dog Pilot has been interpreted as a subtle mockery of the mysteriousness and romanticism that surrounds his character and clouds Jane's perception.

It was exactly one form of Bessie's Gytrash--a lion-like creature with long hair and a huge head: it passed me, however, quietly enough; not staying to look up, with strange pretercanine eyes, in my face, as I half expected it would.

In legends there is the hellhound or black dog, exemplified by Cerberus, Garmr, Gwyllgi, Cù Sìth, the black cadejo, Black Shuck, Barghest, Church Grim, Moddey Dhoo, Gytrash, Dip,...