Black Shuck

Chambers found a belief in a spectral black dog in almost every county: large, shaggy, with fiery eyes, haunting places where evil had been done. In Norfolk and parts of Cambridgeshire it was called Shuck and was said to haunt churchyards and lonely lanes, one of which at Overstrand was named Shuck’s Lane after it. The ground where it had been seen was said to be scorched and to smell of brimstone. Lancashire knew it as Trash or Skriker, and in the Isle of Man it was the Mauthe Doog of Peel Castle.