Ominous black dog UK

It was not a good day for the parishioners of the town of Bangui, in the County of Suffolk.

First, 14 Aug 1577 directly during worship in the Church of St. Mary above the city was a storm and the Church was struck by lightning. And then they broke into the building a real Cerberus. A huge black dog burst into the Church through the door and ran straight past the benches with the congregation. At the sight of him the two men I went down on my knees and began to pray, and when the monster rushed past them, then... in some incredible way, had turned his neck and both men fell dead.

As quickly as they came, the black dog is AWOL, leaving only two still-warm corpse. So this strange event was described by the Reverend Abraham Fleming (1552-1607) in the article "A Straunge and Terrible Wunder".

This story was just one of a series of stories about the sinister black dog, nicknamed Shaq Black (Black Shuck), whose image after the incident, is still the emblem of the city of Bangui. About the black dog in Bangui even resemble the weathercocks on the houses. Legends about the mystical devilish black dogs in many different countries around the world, but most of them in England. Black shack is just one of the nicknames of this creation. In other places in the UK they were given the nickname the Tramp, shaggy hound, Grim.

The Isle of man they are called Moddey Dhoo, and in Scotland as Cu Sith. The black dog has also inspired writer Arthur Conan Doyle in the story "the hound of the Baskervilles". Doyle was known to have been fascinated by many paranormal phenomena and for writing the novel studied the many stories about the black dog.

The same black dog by the nickname Grim plays a significant role in the book (and movie) "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", so that this phenomenon left in the past centuries, and the actual and still, although to meet him now much less. And his popularity is so high that across the UK with dozens of hotels, pubs, bars, restaurants and other places called "Black dog." Researcher mark Norman grew up in Devon and for over 15 years enjoys the phenomenon of the black dog. In the archives of the University of Exeter he found records of the famous English folklorist Theo brown and including numerous stories about the black dog.

And not all black dogs in these stories were the forerunners of misfortunes and deaths. Some were tied to specific roads and acted more as defenders, attacking and scaring the robbers. In all the stories of the black dogs could have a different description, but they have almost always stated their abnormally huge size, shaggy coat, and large glowing eyes. Sometimes the dogs were visible chain on the neck, sometimes described creepy creatures with the body of a black dog and a human face. Were these stories also dog living in a fog, dogs the size of a house and a dog walking on its hind legs. A story about a horrible black dog lost in depths of centuries.

The earliest of those that came before us, dated 1127 year. According to Norman many of these stories were only invented to scare unruly children or to deter robbers from the roads. However, in our days the stories from the eyewitnesses about what they saw with my own eyes the terrible black dogs.

"Since 2000, I have received a few of these stories from different places from different people," says Norman.

Some people claim that black dogs are actually the very mysterious large cats, which have long wandering around England and scaring villagers. Others think black dogs are a kind of hallucination, caused by the desire of sleep. Norman admits that there may be some grain of truth in these theories, but that he heard and such stories that he just could not explain.

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