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Black Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog which is said to roam the Norfolk and Suffolk coastline. The monstrous black dog reputed to haunt Bouley Bay in Jersey is depicted on this pub sign A black dog is a spectral being found primarily in British folklore. ...
Norfolk (pronounced IPA: ) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ...
Suffolk (pronounced SUF-fk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ...
The Legend
For centuries, inhabitants of East Anglia have told tales of a large black hellhound with malevolent flaming eyes (or in some variants of the legend a single eye) that are red or alternatively green. They are described as being 'like saucers'. According to reports, the beast varies in size and stature from that of simply a large dog to being the size of a horse. Norfolk and Suffolk, the core area of East Anglia. ...
The Hellhounds are a fighting unit located in Northshield, they are known for their dominant and aggressive style of fighting, their use of period and modern melee tactics and their sense of honor on the field. ...
The legends of the Black Shuck roaming the Anglian countryside date back to the time of the Vikings. His name may derive from the Anglo-Saxon word scucca meaning "demon" or possibly from the local dialect world shucky meaning shaggy or hairy. A legend (Latin, legenda, things to be read) is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. ...
The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, Europe and the British Isles from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. ...
Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ...
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Sometimes Black Shuck is referred to as the Doom Dog. It is said that his appearance bodes ill to the beholder, though not always. More often than not, Black Shuck terrifies his victims out of their wits but then leaves them alone to continue living normal lives. Many other black dogs exhibit a similar trait. Sometimes Black Shuck has appeared headless, and at other times he appears to float on a carpet of mist rather than run. According to folklore, the spectre often haunts graveyards, sideroads and dark forests. Folklore is the body of verbal expressive culture, including tales, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs current among a particular population, comprising the oral tradition of that culture, subculture, or group. ...
Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried. ...
The legend was part of the inspiration for the Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. Sherlock Holmes as imagined by the seminal Holmesian artist, Sidney Paget, in The Strand magazine. ...
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally serialised in the Strand Magazine in 1901 and 1902, which is set largely on Dartmoor 1889. ...
Famous encounters One of the most vivid reports of Black Shuck, though, is of his appearance at the churches of Sheringham and West Runton in Norfolk. On the August 4, 1577, at Blythburgh, Black Shuck is said to have burst in through the church doors. He ran up the nave, past a large congregation, killing a man and boy and causing the church tower to collapse through the roof. As the dog left, he left scorch marks on the north door which can be seen at the church to this day. This article is about the Christian buildings of worship. ...
August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ...
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The encounter is described in "A straunge and terrible Wunder" by Adrian Flemming (1577):
"This black dog, or the divel in such a linenesse (God hee knoweth al who worketh all,) runing all along down the body of the church with great swiftnesse, and incredible haste, among the people, in a visible fourm and shape, passed between two persons, as they were kneeling uppon their knees, and occupied in prayer as it seemed, wrung the necks of them bothe at one instant clene backward, in somuch that even at a mome[n]t where they kneeled, they stra[n]gely dyed.
Other accounts attribute the event to lightning or the Devil. Indeed, the scorch marks on the door are referred to by the locals as "the devil's fingerprints". The event is remembered in this verse: Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower in 1906 — one of the first photographs of lightning in an urban environment Lightning is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. ...
The Devil is the name given to a supernatural entity, who, in most Western religions, is the central embodiment of evil. ...
All down the church in midst of fire, the hellish monster flew, And, passing onward to the quire, he many people slew.
Black Shuck in popular culture A song about the Blythburgh animal entitled "Black Shuck" appears on the 2003 album Permission To Land by The Darkness. Holy Trinity church Blythburgh is an English village in the coastal Suffolk marshes, under a hundred miles from London, and four miles from the North Sea at Southwold. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Permission to Land is the debut album of The Darkness. ...
The Darkness are an English rock band touting themselves as classic hard rock. ...
A sinister dog known as "the Grim" is mentioned in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which may derive indirectly from the legend of Black Shuck, via The Hound of the Baskervilles. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the Harry Potter series of childrens books by J. K. Rowling. ...
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally serialised in the Strand Magazine in 1901 and 1902, which is set largely on Dartmoor 1889. ...
The dog is the leader of a group of mythological characters in the 2000 AD series London Falling. Cover of the first issue of 2000 AD, 26 February 1977. ...
Final panel of the first installment of London Falling in prog 1491, drawn by Lee Garbett. ...
According to the children's book The Runton Werewolf by Ritchie Perry, Black Shuck is a Gronk, a race of friendly shapeshifting aliens, the ancestors of which were accidentally left behind on Earth when one of them suffered from stomach troubles. Earth (IPA: , often referred to as the Earth, Terra, or Planet Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ...
See also The monstrous black dog reputed to haunt Bouley Bay in Jersey is depicted on this pub sign Barghest, Bargtjest or Bargest is the name given in the north of England, especially in Yorkshire, to a mythical monstrous goblin-dog with huge teeth and claws. ...
In Catalan myth, Dip is an evil, black, hairy dog, an emissary of the Devil, who sucks peoples blood. ...
External links - The Hell Hound of Norfolk
- EDP24 The tale of Black Shuck
- Apparitions Of Black Dogs
- Black dogs in folklore
- Paranormal Animal Research Group
- The black dogs of Bungay story
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