About this episode

This episode explores the spooky Galician ghost dog known as El Urco, featuring themes of death folklore.

In this episode we look at another spooky, ghostly dog! But this one comes with horns and chains...Here's more death folklore with the Galician El Urco! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/celticmythspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/celticmythspodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CelticMythsPod Music used at the start of the episode is taken from Beyond the Warriors by Guifrog, licensed under a Attribution 3.0 International License .

People in this episode

Host: Sian Esther Powell

Topics covered

• Galician folklore
• ghost stories
• mythical creatures
• death folklore
• spooky legends

Keywords

• El Urco
• Galician folklore
• ghost dog
• spooky legends
• death folklore

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Patreon, Facebook, Twitter

Books & works: Beyond the Warriors

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