The Black Shuck

 

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On this day (Aug 4) in 1577, a monstrous black dog attacked Holy Trinity Church at Blythburgh and St Mary’s Church, Bungay. You can read all about it and get writing prompts on my Weird Wednesday blog!

The image above is from Abraham Fleming’s tale of the Black Shuck at St. Mary’s: “A straunge, and terrible wunder wrought very late in the parish church of Bongay: a town of no great distance from the citie of Norwich, namely the fourth of this August, in ye yeere of our Lord 1577.”  From Wikipedia

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* Old Scratch. Considering what the Black Shuck did to a couple of churches, it makes sense that he could be a form of the Devil himself. It does seem astounding that the Devil would make an appearance on holy ground and dispatch worshippers in a place they surely thought was safe. What would draw him to a church? An evil person masquerading as good? Or might someone have summoned him? And why take the form of a monstrous dog? Perhaps it’s symbolic: a warning that evil and death are strong and vicious.

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