Old Shuck – forerunner of death…

 

This is an illustration from my children’s picture book MARITIME MONSTERS: A FIELD GUIDE.

This old dog is called Shuck or Old Shug and according to the old people you can expect a death in the family if you see the black hound anywhere close to your door.

yours in storytelling,

Steve Vernon

 

Black Dogs and Demonic Hounds

Reblogged from Ghost Cities:

Tales of ghostly black dogs and demonic hounds are prevalent throughout the folklore, myths and legends of the British Isles, from tales of Black Shuck in East Anglia to stories of Barghest in North Yorkshire. These terrifying beasts have even made their way into English Literature in the form of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes story, The Hound of the Baskervilles…

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I've written about Old Shug, the black dog, a couple of times - notably in Haunted Harbours and my children's picture book Maritime Monsters - so I thought I'd reblog this entry from Anil Balan's blog GHOST CITIES.