Black Shuck

 

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Black Shuck also known as Old Shuck, Old Shock and Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog which is said to roam the coastline and countryside of East Anglia. One of many Ghost Dog stories tied to English Folklore across the British Isles. Black Shuck stories from a good part of the folklore for Norfolk, Suffolk, essex and the Cambridgeshire Fens. Descriptions of the animals appearance and nature vary, depending on which story you hear. Its sometimes considered an omen of death and others a companion of sorts.

In the Oxford English Dictionary the name Shuck derives from the old English word Scucca meaning “Devil or Fiend” perhaps from the root Skuh meaning “To terrify”. The first mention of Black Shuck comes from an 1850 edition of the journal Notes and Queries thanks to English reverend E. S. Taylor. Which describes Black Shuck as “Shuch the Dog-Fiend”, noting that people of East Norfolk and Cambridgeshire describe him as a black shaggy dog with fiery eyes and immense size whose found in and around churchyards at midnight.

An account by Abraham Fleming in 1577 of A strange, and terrible wunder at Bungay Suffolk is the most famous account of Black Shuck. As such images of sinister black dogs have become part of the iconography of the area and have made an appearance into popular culture. Whilst writing in 1877, Walter Rye stated of Black Shuck “The most curious of our local apparitions, as they are no doubt varieties of the same animal”.

Black Shuck has a space in Modern Media, featuring in the 2005 young adult fantasy series May Bird, as a team of Black Shuck dogs accompany one of the series villains the boogeymen as a sidekick. Both The Darkness -a British pop rock band- and Down I go a British Rock band have songs called Black Shuck featuring on The Darknesses 2003 debut album Permission to Land and Down I Go's 2019 LP All Down the Church in Midst of Fire the Hellish Monster Flew, and Passing Onward to the Quire, He Many People Slew. Black Shuck also appears as a mini boss in the 2020 game Assassins Creed: Valhalla and in Rahel Kapsaski's 20202 stop motion animated folk horror film Curse of the Black Shuck, which was released by Troma.

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