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    Guinefort (French pronunciation: [ɡin.fɔʁ]) was a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint. Guinefort's...
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    such as that of Llywelyn and his dog Gelert in Wales, or that of Saint Guinefort in France. It is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 178A. The original...
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  • Agincourt in 1415 as having "died as a lord of a thousand acres." Saint Guinefort Cornwell, Bernard (2008). Azincourt. HarperCollinsPublishers. pp. 184...
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    Roche. Saint Roch's dog is sometimes conflated with the folk saint Saint Guinefort, the holy greyhound. Croatian celebrations around the saint are depicted...
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    THE SPOT IS CALLED BEDDGELERT. Jock of the Bushveld Saint Gelert Saint Guinefort List of individual dogs Jenkins, D. E. (1899). "Chapter V. The Legend...
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    and Hudson Bay Ghouls and qutrubs sharing same origin of myth Saint Guinefort Theriocephaly, generic term for human-shaped bodies with animal heads...
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    Contemporary illustration of Saint Guinefort, a greyhound sainted by people in the Dombes region of France around the 13th century...
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  • Rod Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1941) Christian feast day: Guinefort, the holy greyhound, feast day traditionally. Immaculate Heart of Mary...
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  • Paris, Henri Loones, 1877. Available online via Gallica. Medieval Sourcebook: Stephen de Bourbon: De Supersticione - On St. Guinefort Saint Guinefort...
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  • August 16, is celebrated in Bolivia as the "birthday of all dogs." Saint Guinefort was the name given to a dog who received local veneration as a folk saint...
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