Shock! the Black Dog of Bungay: A Case Study in Local Folklore

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Biography | James Mayhew". Archived from the original on 2 February 2018 . Retrieved 1 February 2018. Paynter, William and Semmens, Jason (2008). The Cornish Witch-finder: William Henry Paynter and the Witchery, Ghosts, Charms and Folklore of Cornwall. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. ISBN 978-0-902660-39-7.

Witnesses said that around 20 to 30 of these hellish beings stayed in the area through Lent all the way to Easter, a period of about 50 days. The local football club, Bungay Town, play in the Anglian Combination, having previously been members of the Eastern Counties League. The team plays its home games at the Maltings Meadow Sports Ground. New Bungay town reeve unveiled for 2023 as tradition continues". Beccles & Bungay Journal . Retrieved 3 January 2023.Jarvis, Robin (7 October 2021). "The Ghost Hound Of Goshen Hill Is A Legendary Ghost Dog That Haunts A Five-Mile Stretch Of Road In South Carolina". OnlyInYourState® . Retrieved 7 November 2023. Local accounts attribute the event to the Devil - The scorch marks on the door of Blythburgh Church are referred to by the locals as "the devil’s fingerprints" which can be seen at the church to this day. For he was speechless, ghastly, wan Like him of whom the Story ran Who spoke the spectre hound in Man. Padfoot [ edit ]

Barrett, Walter Henry (1963). Porter, Enid (ed.). Tales from the Fens. Routledge& Kegan Paul. ISBN 9780710010544. The greatest damage of all however was caused by a terrible fire on 1 March 1688, which devastated Bungay town, leaving some 200 families homeless and badly damaging this church, especially the tower and south aisle, melting the bells and destroying much of what was combustible inside. It is said that the inhabitants, seeking refuge, entered the church with their treasured possessions already burning. Following this disaster, major restoration and refurbishment took place. The south aisle roof was completed in 1699 and the handsome new altarpiece was installed in 1701 – the year that the church was reopened. Brown, Judith C. (1986). Immodest acts: the life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503675-1– via Internet Archive. The 16th century saw great changes at St Mary’s. After 1536 when the Priory closed as a result of the dissolution of the lesser monasteries by King Henry VIII, the nuns quire and the nunnery buildings were allowed to go to ruin. Whilst the nave and aisles were retained as the parish church with the Reformation in the mid-16th century, much of the colour and carving, the great Rood, the statues and a host of other visual aids to teach the faithful were removed and the interior was equipped for the liturgical requirements of the reformed church with its services and scriptures in English. More damage was done by the Puritans in 1643-44 in their zeal to rid churches of superstitious images and inscriptions.McNab, Chris "Mythical Monsters: The scariest creatures from legends, books, and movies" in Scholastic Publishing 2006, pp. 8–9.