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href="/wiki/English_folklore" title="English folklore">English folklore</a>, <b>Black Shuck</b>, <b>Old Shuck</b>, <b>Old Shock</b> or simply <b>Shuck</b> is the name given to a <a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">ghostly</a> <a href="/wiki/Black_dog_(ghost)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black dog (ghost)">black dog</a> which is said to roam the coastline and countryside of <a href="/wiki/East_Anglia" title="East Anglia">East Anglia</a>, one of many such black dogs recorded in folklore across the British Isles.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="unable to find any trace in snippet view online (May 2024)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Accounts of Black Shuck form part of the <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">folklore</a> of <a href="/wiki/Norfolk" title="Norfolk">Norfolk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suffolk" title="Suffolk">Suffolk</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire" title="Cambridgeshire">Cambridgeshire</a> Fens and <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a>, and descriptions of the creature's appearance and nature vary considerably; it is sometimes recorded as an omen of death, but, in other instances, is described as companionable.<sup id="cite_ref-Sherwood_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sherwood-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the <i><a href="/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary" title="Oxford English Dictionary">Oxford English Dictionary</a></i>, the name <i>Shuck</i> derives from the <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> word <span title="Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text"><i lang="ang">scucca</i></span> 'devil, fiend', perhaps from the root <span title="Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text"><i lang="ang">skuh</i></span> 'to terrify'.<sup id="cite_ref-OED_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OED-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first mention in print of "Black Shuck" is by Reverend E. S. Taylor in an 1850 edition of the journal <i><a href="/wiki/Notes_and_Queries" title="Notes and Queries">Notes and Queries</a></i> which describes "Shuck the Dog-fiend"; "This phantom I have heard many persons in East Norfolk, and even Cambridgeshire, describe as having seen as a black shaggy dog, with fiery eyes and of immense size, and who visits churchyards at midnight."<sup id="cite_ref-notes_and_queries_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-notes_and_queries-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Fleming" title="Abraham Fleming">Abraham Fleming</a>'s account of the appearance of <i>A strange, and terrible wunder</i> in 1577 at <a href="/wiki/Bungay" title="Bungay">Bungay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suffolk" title="Suffolk">Suffolk</a> is a famous account of the beast. Images of sinister black dogs have become part of the iconography of the area and have appeared in <a href="/wiki/Black_dog_ghosts_in_popular_culture#Black_Shuck" class="mw-redirect" title="Black dog ghosts in popular culture">popular culture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lore_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lore-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writing in 1877, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Rye" title="Walter Rye">Walter Rye</a> stated that Shuck was "the most curious of our local apparitions, as they are no doubt varieties of the same animal."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Descriptions">Descriptions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_Shuck&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Descriptions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Descriptions of Black Shuck vary in both shape and size, from that of a large dog to being the size of a calf or horse.<sup id="cite_ref-lore_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lore-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sherwood_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sherwood-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> W. A. Dutt, in his 1901 <i>Highways & Byways in East Anglia</i> describes the creature thus: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>He takes the form of a huge black dog, and prowls along dark lanes and lonesome field footpaths, where, although his howling makes the hearer's blood run cold, his footfalls make no sound. You may know him at once, should you see him, by his fiery eye; he has but one, and that, like the <a href="/wiki/Cyclops" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyclops">Cyclops</a>', is in the middle of his head. But such an encounter might bring you the worst of luck: it is even said that to meet him is to be warned that your death will occur before the end of the year. So you will do well to shut your eyes if you hear him howling; shut them even if you are uncertain whether it is the dog fiend or the voice of the wind you hear. Should you never set eyes on our Norfolk Snarleyow<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> you may perhaps doubt his existence, and, like other learned folks, tell us that his story is nothing but the old Scandinavian myth of the black hound of <a href="/wiki/Odin" title="Odin">Odin</a>, brought to us by the <a href="/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Vikings</a> who long ago settled down on the Norfolk coast.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Dr Simon Sherwood suggests that the earliest surviving description of devilish black hounds is an account of an incident in the <a href="/wiki/Peterborough_Cathedral" title="Peterborough Cathedral">Peterborough Abbey</a> recorded in the <a href="/wiki/Peterborough_Chronicle" title="Peterborough Chronicle">Peterborough Chronicle</a> (one version of the <i><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle" title="Anglo-Saxon Chronicle">Anglo-Saxon Chronicle</a></i>) around 1127: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Let no-one be surprised at the truth of what we are about to relate, for it was common knowledge throughout the whole country that immediately after [Abbot Henry of Poitou's arrival at Peterborough Abbey] - it was the Sunday when they sing Exurge Quare - many men both saw and heard a great number of huntsmen hunting. The huntsmen were black, huge and hideous, and rode on black horses and on black he-goats and the hounds were jet black with eyes like saucers and horrible. This was seen in the very deer park of the town of Peterborough and in all the woods that stretch from that same town to <a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Lincolnshire" title="Stamford, Lincolnshire">Stamford</a>, and in the night the monks heard them sounding and winding their horns. Reliable witnesses who kept watch in the night declared that there might well have been as many as twenty or thirty of them winding their horns as near they could tell. This was seen and heard from the time of his arrival all through Lent and right up to Easter."<sup id="cite_ref-Sherwood_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sherwood-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>This account also appears to describe the Europe-wide phenomenon of a <a href="/wiki/Wild_Hunt" title="Wild Hunt">Wild Hunt</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bungay_and_Blythburgh">Bungay and Blythburgh</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_Shuck&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Bungay and Blythburgh"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_Staunge_and_terrible_Wunder.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/A_Staunge_and_terrible_Wunder.jpg/200px-A_Staunge_and_terrible_Wunder.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="379" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/A_Staunge_and_terrible_Wunder.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="252" data-file-height="477" /></a><figcaption>Title page of Rev. Abraham Fleming's account of the appearance of the ghostly black dog "Black Shuck" at the church of Bungay, Suffolk: "A straunge, and terrible Wunder wrought very late in the parish church of Bungay: a town of no great distance from the citie of Norwich, namely the fourth of this August, in the yeere of our Lord 1577. in a great tempest of violent raine, lightning, and thunder, the like wherof hath been seldome seene. With the appeerance of an horrible shaped thing, sensibly perceiued of the people then and there assembled. Drawen into a plain method according to the written copye. by Abraham Fleming."</figcaption></figure> <p>One of the most notable reports of Black Shuck is of his appearance at the churches of <a href="/wiki/Bungay" title="Bungay">Bungay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blythburgh" title="Blythburgh">Blythburgh</a> in Suffolk. On 4 August 1577, at Blythburgh, Black Shuck is said to have burst in through the doors of <a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Blythburgh" title="Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh">Holy Trinity Church</a> to a clap of thunder. He ran up the nave, past a large congregation, killing a man and boy and causing the church <a href="/wiki/Steeple_(architecture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Steeple (architecture)">steeple</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The encounter on the same day at <a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Bungay" title="St Mary's Church, Bungay">St Mary's Church, Bungay</a> was described in <i>A Straunge and Terrible Wunder</i> by <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Fleming" title="Abraham Fleming">Abraham Fleming</a> in 1577: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>This black dog, or the divel in such a likenesse (God hee knoweth al who worketh all,) running 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.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Fleming was a translator and editor for several printing houses in London, and therefore probably only published his account based on exaggerated <a href="/wiki/Oral_tradition" title="Oral tradition">oral accounts</a>. Other local accounts attribute the event to the <a href="/wiki/Devil" title="Devil">Devil</a> (Fleming calls the animal "the Divel in such a likeness"). The scorch marks on the door are referred to by the locals as "the devil's fingerprints", and the event is remembered in this verse: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>All down the church in midst of fire, the hellish monster flew, and, passing onward to the quire, he many people slew.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Dr David Waldron and Christopher Reeve suggest that a fierce <a href="/wiki/Electrical_storm" class="mw-redirect" title="Electrical storm">electrical storm</a> recorded by contemporary accounts on that date, coupled with the trauma of the ongoing <a href="/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Reformation</a>, may have led to the accounts entering folklore.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Littleport">Littleport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_Shuck&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Littleport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Littleport#Black_dog_hauntings" title="Littleport">Littleport § Black dog hauntings</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Littleport" title="Littleport">Littleport</a>, Cambridgeshire is home to two different legends of spectral black dogs, which have been linked to the Black Shuck folklore, but differ in significant aspects: local folklorist W.H. Barrett relates the story of a huge black dog haunting the area after being killed rescuing a local girl from a lustful friar in pre-reformation times,<sup id="cite_ref-TFF01_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TFF01-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CFT01_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CFT01-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while fellow folklorist Enid Porter relates stories of a black dog haunting the <a href="/wiki/A10_road_(England)" title="A10 road (England)">A10 road</a> after its owner drowned in the nearby <a href="/wiki/River_Great_Ouse" title="River Great Ouse">River Great Ouse</a> in the 1800s.<sup id="cite_ref-CCF01_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CCF01-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MC01_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MC01-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_Shuck&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>British rock band <a href="/wiki/The_Darkness_(band)" title="The Darkness (band)">The Darkness</a> have a song called "Black Shuck" on their 2003 debut album <i><a href="/wiki/Permission_to_Land" title="Permission to Land">Permission to Land</a></i>. </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Teen_Wolf_(2011_TV_series)" title="Teen Wolf (2011 TV series)">Teen Wolf</a></i>, an ancient Hellhound spirit that had possessed someone, tells one of the main characters that it is known by many names, one of which is "Black Shuck". </p><p>British rock band <a href="/wiki/Down_I_Go" title="Down I Go">Down I Go</a> have a song called "Black Shuck" on their 2019 EP 'All Down the Church in Midst of Fire the Hellish Monster Flew, and Passing Onward to the Quire, He Many People Slew'.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="looks like a blog or self-published source (July 2019)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In June 2019, after being previously crowdfunded on Kickstarter, the graphic novel <i>The Burning Black: Legend of Black Shuck</i> was published by Renegade Arts Entertainment. The book was written by Mark Allard-Will, with artwork by Ryan Howe and lettering by Elaine M. Will. The graphic novel features Black Shuck as its central antagonist.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Black Shuck appears in the 2020 video game <i><a href="/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed:_Valhalla" class="mw-redirect" title="Assassin's Creed: Valhalla">Assassin's Creed: Valhalla</a></i> as a mini boss encountered while exploring the countryside of East Anglia. The player can find it eating a carcass amidst a ruined building, and when killed it gives the player a skill point and its severed head.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The Black Shuck appears in Rahel Kapsaski's 2020 <a href="/wiki/Stop-motion" class="mw-redirect" title="Stop-motion">stop-motion</a> animated folk horror film <i>Curse of the Black Shuck</i> released by <a href="/wiki/Troma" class="mw-redirect" title="Troma">Troma</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Black Shuck is a track with 'knot-in-the-stomach insistent strings' on These Feral Lands Volume 1, a 2020 release by musician Laura Cannell, comedian Stewart Lee and others.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Satirical, comedic, theatrical <a href="/wiki/String_quartet" title="String quartet">string quartet</a> Bowjangles feature a song about Black Shuck composed by Norfolk-born ensemble member Bertie Anderson in the recording of their stage show <i>Excalibow</i>, in keeping with the overall theme of myths and legends.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 2005 fantasy <a href="/wiki/Young_adult_literature" title="Young adult literature">young adult novel</a> series, <i><a href="/wiki/May_Bird_and_the_Ever_After" title="May Bird and the Ever After">May Bird</a></i>, a team of Black Shuck dogs accompany one of the series villains, the <a href="/wiki/Bogeyman" title="Bogeyman">boogeyman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_Shuck&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barghest" title="Barghest">Barghest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_dog_(folklore)" title="Black dog (folklore)">Black dog (folklore)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shug_Monkey" title="Shug Monkey">Shug Monkey</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_Shuck&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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