Black Shuck

Quiet, and a tad misunderstood, black shuck is a dog who has been around for longer than you may think. He is often in hiding because of his fearsome scraggly appearance. Rumor has it that he broke into a church, and if you gaze into his eyes, you'll die.

He is from Bungay, Suffolk.

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“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… . 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… 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 Odin, brought to us by the Vikings… .”

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