Black Shuck
Ringkasan
Black Shuck adalah anjing hitam hantu dalam cerita rakyat Inggris yang konon berkeliaran di pesisir dan pedesaan East Anglia, kadang dianggap pertanda kematian.
Black Shuck is a ghostly black dog of English folklore said to roam the coast and countryside of East Anglia, sometimes taken as an omen of death.
Kisah dan tradisi
Dalam cerita rakyat Inggris (English folklore), Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock, atau Shuck adalah nama anjing hitam hantu yang konon berkeliaran di pesisir dan pedesaan East Anglia, salah satu dari banyak anjing hitam dalam cerita rakyat di Kepulauan Britania (British Isles). Kisahnya bagian dari cerita rakyat Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire Fens, dan Essex, dan gambaran rupanya sangat beragam; kadang ia pertanda kematian, kadang justru teman yang ramah. Menurut Oxford English Dictionary, nama Shuck berasal dari kata Inggris Kuno (Old English) scucca, "setan". Penyebutan tertulis pertama "Black Shuck" oleh Pendeta E. S. Taylor pada 1850 dalam Notes and Queries menggambarkannya sebagai anjing hitam berbulu lebat, bermata api, berukuran sangat besar, yang mengunjungi pekuburan pada tengah malam. Catatan Abraham Fleming tentang kemunculannya di Bungay, Suffolk, pada 1577 adalah kisah terkenal tentang makhluk itu. W. A. Dutt (1901) menulis bahwa ia hanya bermata satu di tengah kepala seperti Cyclops, dan bertemu dengannya adalah pertanda kematian sebelum akhir tahun. Menurut artikel de, legendanya kemungkinan besar mengilhami Arthur Conan Doyle menulis The Hound of the Baskervilles.
In English folklore Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock or just Shuck is a ghostly black dog said to wander the coast and countryside of East Anglia, one of many black dogs in the folklore of the British Isles. His tales belong to Norfolk, Suffolk, the Cambridgeshire Fens and Essex, and accounts of his looks and nature differ widely; sometimes he foretells death, while elsewhere he is a friendly companion. The Oxford English Dictionary derives Shuck from Old English scucca, 'devil, fiend'. The first printed mention of 'Black Shuck', by the Reverend E. S. Taylor in Notes and Queries in 1850, describes a huge shaggy black dog with fiery eyes that visits churchyards at midnight. Abraham Fleming's account of its appearance at Bungay, Suffolk, in 1577 is a famous record of the beast. W. A. Dutt (1901) wrote that it has a single eye in the middle of its head like a Cyclops, and that meeting it warns of death before the year is out. According to the de article the legend very probably inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Fakta utama
- Budaya / Culture
- Tradisi Inggris
- Kawasan / Region
- Eropa
- Negara / Country
- GB
- Klasifikasi / Classification
- Spirit
Nama lain / Alternate names
Old Shuck, Shuck
Tahukah kamu? / Did you know?
Legenda Black Shuck kemungkinan besar mengilhami Arthur Conan Doyle menulis The Hound of the Baskervilles.
The Black Shuck legend very probably inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write The Hound of the Baskervilles.