Passing on Black Shuck

Passing on Black Shuck

Black Dog Tales, Guest writers

Tim Fox-Godden is friend who prints and illustrates, he also originates from the same area of Norfolk as me, he strolls down many of the same psychological byways and holloways as me and occasionally our paths cross. He has produced this rather lovely linocut as a...
Black Shuck of the Fens

Black Shuck of the Fens

Black Dog Tales, Guest writers

Black Shuck of the Fens Guest post: Matthew Champion I have a confession to make. I was born on the edge of the fens. A child of the bleak, flat and desolate waste that sits on Norfolk’s western boundary, between ‘the Isle’ and the cold North Sea....
Physical Graffiti – Jess Macdonald

Physical Graffiti – Jess Macdonald

Black Dog Tales, Guest writers

Guest post from Jess Macdonald From a very early age, I’ve always loved ghosts and ghouls, and long-legged-beasties and things that go bump in the night. Folklore, myths, the supernatural. I’ve never believed any of it, but it’s always exerted a hold on me. I’d plead...
The Mouldwarp King

The Mouldwarp King

Black Dog Tales, Guest writers, Mythogeography

Like badgers in channels of hypocausts devoid of fire, The Mouldwarps scatter the cairns of our mothers, And the bogs hold our fathers pinned to wicker.[1] The mole is an ‘earth-thrower’ – a mouldywarp, molywarppe, moudiwarp, mouldwarp, moldwarp. The collision...
The Black Dog of Sculthorpe Moor

The Black Dog of Sculthorpe Moor

Black Dog Tales

Guest post by Nick Headland A couple of Black dog tales, neither experienced first hand which is more-or-less how Folklore works and how it evolves. So much so that Nick pointed out in his message that if he asked the other people involved now the story would change,...
Black Dog lore of the North York Moors

Black Dog lore of the North York Moors

Black Dog Tales

Guest post: Martyn Hudson, Newcastle University The North York Moors of North East Yorkshire are well known for their witch folklore and for lore around hybrid human and animal beings including the witch-hares of Danby Dale, Westerdale and Farndale, mermen and women...
The Halvergate Shuck

The Halvergate Shuck

Black Dog Tales, Guest writers

Guest post from Nigel Thorpe There’s nothing quite as strange and good as a tale from the horses mouth, someone you know who has encountered, done, or experienced something. Nigel bumped into Shuck at the very start of the millennium. This story serves to show...
Black dog tales: Bungay’s Black Shuck

Black dog tales: Bungay’s Black Shuck

Black Dog Tales

“There were assembled at the same season, to hear divine service and common prayer in the parish church of Bongay, the people therabouts inhabiting. Immediately hereupon, there appeared in a most horrible similitude and likenesse to the congregation then and...