C. Lee McKenzie

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A to Z Blog Challenge: The Letter Y

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AtoZ Blog Challenge
2014
Stuff I Learned or Laughed at from Bloggers in the 2013 A to Z Challenge .

All you gots to do is identify the Mystery Blogger each day. I’ll give you hints when I can. I’ll post the answers and the winner each Monday.

The last winner will receive a signed copy of The Princess of Las Pulgas 

(If you already have one of the prizes, I’ll figure something else out!)

BY

1) identifying the most bloggers correctly=2 points.  
2) leaving witty comments=1 point or more depending on glibness
3) adding to the information and making it more valuable=2 points 

TIES WILL BE BROKEN BY MY CAT. SHE’S FAIR AND IMPARTIAL.UNLESS CATNIP IS INVOLVED, THEN SHE GOES WITH THE BEST SUPPLIER.

Y is for Yeth Hound

Mystery Blogger Y’s 2013 theme: “This year will be all things supernatural…. those beings and creatures we all know and love/hate. And, because I’m a glutton for punishment, there’ll be a poem added to each post as well.

“Yeth Hound— one of the incarnations of the “Black Dog” myth, this one located specifically, in Devon, England.

“Black Dogs” appear in myths across the world, most are associated with death and bad omens… i.e. Hell Hounds.

The Yeth Hound is said to be the spirit of an unbaptised child that takes the form of a headless black dog. The Hound wanders the woods at night making pitiful wailing sounds (though, I’m unclear as to how it makes wailing sounds without having a head).

The Black Dogs were possibly one inspiration from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ghost dog in The Hound of the Baskervilles- “an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.”

HINT: This blogger’s a book seller by day. A book writer by night.

Who was it? 

SIGN UP or VISIT the others who are on this AtoZ Challenge and check out the HOSTS:

Arlee Bird @ Tossing it Out
Tina @ Life is Good

Damyanti @ Amlokiblogs

Jeremy @ Being Retro

Nicole Ayers - The Madlab Post

M. J. Joachim’s Writing Tips

Pam @ An Unconventional Librarian

Comments

  1. Hi Lee - I don't know either - and has to be British I'd have thought … Yeth Hound is a good name .. I wonder if it was created specially for the A-Z and letter Y?!

    Also the fact the blogger is book seller during the day has intrigued me … is it Ellie? But I truly don't know … Not Suzanne, nor Annalisa … but who knows how wrong I could be ..

    Cheers and I now want to see who 'tis! Hilary

  4. No idea but aren't all writers tring to sell their book(s) by day and write at night? I'm just a "rock picker" something akin to the "chain gang."

  7. Aha, human, Lee,

    Rah and Rah is doubly correct. Of course, I don't use anything "From the Inkwell." I hate having ink-stained paws.

    Your starstuckest doggy fan,

    Penny,

    The Alpo Lapdog dog 🙂

  15. The souls of un-baptized babies? Huh. Sounds like a big ole advertizement to run out and baptize your baby NOW or he'll roam the earth for eternity as a wailing dog! Fire and brimstone? You betcha!

  18. The challenge here is that there were a lot of supernatural-themed blogs this time! I didn't learn that until close to the end. I love reading ghost stories, particularly.

  27. Alex stumped? Here first I've come to expect, but stumped?
    I'm not sure either. I'll toss out a guess—Jamie at Mithril Wisdom. I'm not sure he's a bookseller. I'm not even sure now that the name is right.

    Lee
    Wrote By Rote
    An A to Z Co-host blog