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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 ...
Pages in category "Norfolk folklore" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Black Shuck;
Freybug is a monstrous Black Dog that is stated to come from medieval English folklore, specifically from Norfolk. Like most supernatural black dogs, it was roughly the size of a calf, and wandered country roads terrifying travelers. The English martyr Laurence Saunders mentioned Fray-bugs in his letters to his wife in 1555. [1]
The pedlar of Swaffham on a Swaffham town sign. The Pedlar of Swaffham Tradition says that there lived in former times in Soffham (Swaffham), alias Sopham, in Norfolk, a certain pedlar, who dreamed that if he went to London Bridge, and stood there, he should hear very joyfull news, which he at first slighted, but afterwards, his dream being doubled and trebled upon him, he resolved to try the ...
Lower Paleolithic (2,500,000 to 300,000 BC) In 2005 it was discovered that Norfolk contained one of the earliest finds of European man. [2] The find revealed flint tools, similar to those found on the Suffolk coast at Pakefield which were dated at around 668,000 BC [2] and a find at Happisburgh in the "Cromer Forest Bed" has been dated as being approximately 900,000 years old and has given us ...
In Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire and the northern parts of Essex, a black dog known as Black Shuck (also Old Shuck or Shock) is regarded as malevolent, with stories ranging from terrifying people (or killing them outright) to being a portent of death to themselves or a person close to the victim.
Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək) is a ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and east, Cambridgeshire to the west, and Suffolk to the south.
Folklore has it that the events told in Babes in the Wood originally happened in Wayland Wood in Norfolk, England. It is said that the uncle lived at the nearby Griston Hall. The ghosts of the murdered children are said to haunt Wayland Wood. [5] The village signs at Griston and nearby Watton depict the story. In the folklore version, the uncle ...