Black dog
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Black dog may refer to:
  • Black dog (ghost)
    Black dog (ghost)
    A black dog is the name given to a being found primarily in the folklores of the British Isles. The black dog is essentially a nocturnal apparition, often said to be associated with the Devil, and its appearance was regarded as a portent of death. It is generally supposed to be larger than a normal...

    , a ghostly dog in the folklores of the British Isles
  • Black dog (coin)
    Black dog (coin)
    A dog or a black dog was a coin in the Caribbean of Queen Anne of Great Britain, made of pewter or copper, typically worth 1½ pence or a 72nd of a dollar. The name comes from the negative connotations of the word "dog," as they came from debased silver coins, and the dark color of those same...

    , a coin in the Caribbean, starting under the reign of Queen Anne
  • Black Dog (film)
    Black Dog (film)
    Black Dog is a 1998 film about an ex-con manipulated into transporting illegal arms. The film stars Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis, and Meat Loaf.-Plot:...

    , a 1998 film
  • Black Dog Productions
    Black Dog Productions
    The Black Dog was founded by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner. Widely regarded as legends, the group are pioneers who, along with acts like Autechre, Aphex Twin, µ-ziq and LFO, came to define the techno movement known as intelligent dance music in the early 1990s.-Early career:In...

    , alias The Black Dog, a British electronic music band
  • Black Dog (song)
    Black Dog (song)
    "Black Dog" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, the lead off track of their fourth album, released in 1971. It was also released as a single in the United States and Australia with "Misty Mountain Hop" on the B-side, and reached #15 on Billboard and #11 in Australia.In 2010, the song was...

    , a song by Led Zeppelin from their album Led Zeppelin IV
  • Black Dog, a fictional pirate in the adventure novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • A metaphor, coined by Horace, used by Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...

     and popularised by Winston Churchill
    Winston Churchill
    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...

    , for the experience of major depressive disorder.
  • Black dog 'Familiar spirit' of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.
  • BlackDog
    BlackDog
    The BlackDog is a pocket-sized, self-contained computer with a built-in biometric fingerprint reader which was developed in 2005 by Realm Systems, which is plugged into and powered by the USB port of a host computer using its peripheral devices for input and output.It is is a mobile personal server...

    , a USB-based Linux "computer on a stick"
  • Black Dog, Devon
    Black Dog, Devon
    Black Dog is a village in Mid Devon, ten miles west of Tiverton and six miles north of Crediton.The village is on one of the highest ridges of land between Dartmoor and Exmoor, at an altitude of 200m. It enjoys views to both moors, but particularly of Dartmoor from the pub, the Black Dog Inn, a...

    , a village in England

See also

  • Black Dog & Leventhal, an imprint of the Workman Publishing Company
  • Journeys with the Black Dog
    Journeys with the Black Dog
    Journeys with the Black Dog: Inspirational Stories of Bringing Depression to Heel is a 2007 anthology edited by Tessa Wigney, Kerrie Eyers and Gordon Parker from the Black Dog Institute at the University of NSW. The book is a series of excerpts from submissions to a recent essay competition that...

    , an anthology of essays on clinical depression
  • "Black Eyed Dog", a song by Nick Drake from Time of No Reply
    Time of No Reply
    Time of No Reply is a 1986 compilation album featuring outtakes and alternative versions of songs by English folk singer Nick Drake. It was also included as the fourth disc of the 1986 version of the Nick Drake box set Fruit Tree.-Track listing:...

  • "Black Dog on My Shoulder", a song from the album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
    This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
    This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours is the fifth album by Welsh band Manic Street Preachers. It was released in September 1998 on Epic Records, and in the United States the following year, on Virgin Records.- Background :...

    , by the Manic Street Preachers
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