Title: Dog Lick

General Information about Item:

• Verbal Folklore: Children’s Folklore (Horror Stories)

• Language: English

• Country where Item is from: United States

Informant Data:

Sharon Bian was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1997 and grew up in the surrounding area. Sharon attended public school in New Haven county. She currently attends Dartmouth College and studies Engineering Sciences. In her free time, she likes to go camping and play frisbee.

Contextual Data:

Sharon heard this story at the age of 10 from her older cousin while camping at Sleeping Giant State Park in Connecticut. As a child the story freaked her out, but it was tradition for all the children to tell scary stories while camping.

Item:

Transcript of Associated File:

I went on a lot of camping trips with my family when I was little and my cousin would come with us a lot of times and one time when I was 10 she told me a horror story about a little girl and her dog and it was quite traumatizing to me at the time and I definitely remember it in great detail. So the story goes that the little girl is home alone for the first time because her parents are going out. And she only has her dog for company. And she is  quiet nervous to be home alone for the first time so she locks all her door and windows and she goes to bed and she always has her dog sleeping next to her under the bed. And whenever she gets scared she would like put her hand down and, and like maybe she’ll pet the dog or the dog would lick her hand and then she’ll know that she’d be safe. So she goes to bed and everything is normal and sometime in the middle of the night  she’ll hear like, she hears like a whimpering noise, like behind a wall or something she wakes up and gets scared but puts her hand down under her bed  and she feels like a lick on her hand so she calms down and goes back to bed. And then she wakes up later to the same noise and she wakes up puts her hand down, feels a lick, gets calm again and falls asleep. This happens repeatedly until… then there’s a new noise and this is like  a weird dripping noise. So she is pretty frightened at this point, she gets up and feels her way through the dark room and walks down the hallway and opens the bathroom. And in the bathroom she sees her dead mutated dog disemboweled hanging in the shower with blood pooling all over the floor. So that is the story and I guess the question is who was licking her hand?

Informant’s Comments:

“That scared me a lot when I was little and I still remember it to this day.”

Collector’s Comments:

Campfire Storys were told from child to child making this children’s folklore. The story may not seem scary now, but they are scary for children.

Collector’s Name: Sydney Zhou

Tags/Keywords: Horror, Children Folklore, Campfire Stories