Black dog
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Black dog may refer to:
- Black dog (ghost), a ghostly dog in the folklores of the British Isles
- Black dog (coin), a coin in the Caribbean, starting under the reign of Queen Anne
- Black Dog (film), a 1998 film
- Black Dog Productions, alias The Black Dog, a British electronic music band
- Black Dog (song), 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[1], used by Samuel Johnson and popularised by Winston Churchill, for the experience of major depressive disorder.[2][3]
- Black dog 'Familiar spirit' of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.
- BlackDog, a USB-based Linux "computer on a stick"
- Black Dog, Devon, a village in England
[edit] See also
- Black Dog & Leventhal, an imprint of the Workman Publishing Company
- Journeys with the Black Dog, an anthology of essays on clinical depression
- "Black Eyed Dog", a song by Nick Drake from Time of No Reply
- "Black Dog on My Shoulder", a song from the album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, by the Manic Street Preachers
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/24/mental-health-black-dog-sculpture-campaign
- ^ The Black Dog, CBS News, 10 October 2000, retrieved 29 October 2009
- ^ Churchill's Black Dog?: the history of the 'Black Dog' as a metaphor for depression, Megan McKinlay, January 2005, retrieved 17 January 2011
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