Legendary Essex note: We spent a fab weekend in Bungay, Suffolk, this Summer at The Black Shuck Festival; a unique festival that celebrates folklore, imagination, and storytelling, based on the ‘strange and terrible wunder’ that is the Black Dog of Bungay. The Festival is held annually over the first weekend in August, commemorating the Black Shuck visitation in Bungay in August 1577. The legend documented by the vicar Abraham Fleming describes the hellhound bursting into the church and mauling congregation members. After its rampage in Bungay, the red eyed beast allegedly fled to Blythburgh, where its claw marks can still be seen on the church doors .
