Gytrash

Same rules as before - try to get it on the first clue: 1. had the tallest building in the world from 1280 to 1549; 2. invented the tin can; 3. its top university once had rules that specifically forbade students from bringing bows and arrows to class; 4. home to the Gytrash; 5. is not officially recognized as a country.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

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

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

After googling what a Gytrash is and the fact that it isn't recognised as a country I think that it is part of the UK.

[mystery country] the ancient world 2008

Same rules as before - try to get it on the first clue: 1. had the tallest building in the world from 1280 to 1549; 2. invented the tin can; 3. its top university once had rules that specifically forbade students from bringing bows and arrows to class; 4. home to the Gytrash; 5. is not officially recognized as a country.

[mystery country] the ancient world 2008

Not heard of Gytrash butn Black dog legends are not uncomon in England

[mystery country] the ancient world 2008

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

Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I. 1848

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.

Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I. 1848

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.

Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I. 1848

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.

Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I. 1848

‘Well,’ said Laura, temporising, ‘we all know about the Gytrash, don’t we?’

Spotted Hemlock Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1958