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The story of the mysterious black dogs, which are most often for some reason they meet in England, you can start with an old story, described by Rev. Abraham Fleming (1552-1607) in article “A Straunge and Terrible Wunder “(” The strange and terrifying miracle “). Essence it boils down to the following.
August 4, 1577 parishioners from the town of Bangui in Suffolk County, gathered for worship in St. Mary’s Church. During the service over the city a storm broke out, landed in the church lightning, and then a terrible Cerberus burst into her building. Breaking into the door, a giant black dog rushed along the benches with the parishioners. Two men at the sight of a monster with a prayer fell to their knees, and the dog, rushing past them, somehow curled their necks to both, and the unfortunate fell dead … after that the black monster just as quickly disappeared, and it is not clear where, and left behind two warm still the corpse. Later, the inhabitants of the town learned that on the same day the monster originally burst into the Holy Trinity Church in the village of Blitburg, which is 12 miles from Bangui. During a severe thunderstorm, peasants hid under church vaults, and now at the next the thunderous thunderous doors suddenly burst open – and a huge the dog, who seemed a fiend of hell, roared through the crowd with a roar, killing on go boy and man. At that moment, the church spire fell through through the roof down. After the dog ran away, the doors remained marks from his claws in the form of tan marks that are visible and Today…
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This is just one story in a series of dark stories dedicated to the creepy dog that people nicknamed Black Shack. By the way, his the image is still present on the coat of arms of Bangui, and even weathercocks in this city they remind of the Black Shack …
However, this creature has other nicknames. The British they call him the Tramp, the Shaggy hound, the makeup, the inhabitants of the Isle of Man called Moddey Dhoo, and the Scots – Cu Sith.
The traditions of the black dog inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to creation of the story “The Hound of the Baskervilles”. As you know, a writer was fond of various anomalous phenomena and studied many evidence of this phenomenon.
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The black dog Grim and in J. Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Prisoner Azkaban. “As you can see, this character is relevant in our days. More Moreover, its popularity is so high that it is scattered throughout the country Dozens of restaurants, bars, pubs and hotels under the sign “Black dog”…
Studies of the black dog phenomenon
Native of Devon County Mark Norman for over fifteen years is engaged in the study of this phenomenon. In the archives of Exeter University he managed to discover the records left by the famous English folklorist Theo Brown, in particular a number of stories about the black dog.
From the records it follows that these mystical creatures are not always foreshadowed or brought people death and misery. Some of them were “attached” to certain roads and rather behaved like defenders of civilians, scaring off robbers.
It should be said that the descriptions of black dogs are somewhat different, but all sources testify to their unnaturally huge size, shaggy coat and large burning eyes. Sometimes on the neck dogs could see a chain, sometimes it was all about creepy creatures with black dog body and human face. Dogs were mentioned that live in the fog, and the dogs that walk on their hind legs, finally, dogs the size of a whole house …
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Similar stories go back centuries. Earliest of them dates from 1127 year. Mark Norman believes that many legends were invented by people and pursued practical goals, for example, to scare off road robbers or pacify naughty children. By no less today, many claim to have seen monstrous blacks dogs with my own eyes. Since 2000 Norman got a few dozens of reports of such meetings from various places.
Some people believe that black dogs are actually not dogs at all, but those same mysterious big cats that have long been already scare the English villagers. Others generally consider them hallucination. However, according to Norman, he heard stories about scary black dogs from people who aren’t in any way suspect of fantasies, hoaxes or hallucinations. Other the thing is that explaining all these incredible stories is pretty hard…
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