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See also:GABRIEL HOUNDS , a spectral See also:pack supposed in the See also:North of See also:England to foretell See also:death by their yelping at See also:night . The See also:legend is that they are the souls of unbaptized See also:children wandering through the See also:air till the See also:day of See also:judgment . They are also some-times called See also:Gabriel or Gabble Ratchet . A very prosaic ex-planation of this nocturnal See also:noise is given by J . C . See also:Atkinson in his See also:Cleveland Glossary (1868) . "This," he writes, " is the name for a yelping See also:sound heard at night, more or less resembling the cry of hounds or yelping of See also:dogs, probably due to large flocks of See also:wild geese which See also:chance to be flying by night." See further See also:Joseph See also:Lucas, Studies in Nidderdale (1882), pp . 156-157 . |
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