On Sunday August 4, 1577 in Bungay he tore through the congregation of St Mary's Church during a service. The fiery dog killed two and left another injured, shrivelled "like a drawn purse."

As the shocked townsfolk reeled from the tragedy, news came that not long before, Shuck had struck just a few miles away at Blythburgh where he had again attacked the church congregation. A man and boy were killed there and others left scorched and hysterical as the church spire crashed through the roof, breaking the font while the tower bells tumbled down.
As the dreadful dog flew from the church, he is said to have left deep scorch marks on the door. The legend continued for centuries even though there were no signs of the marks on the original door. Then, in 1933, the door was cleaned and burn marks - some say they were the devil's own fingerprints - were there for all to see. They remain there today .

The encounter at Bungay is described in "A straunge and terrible Wunder" by the Reverend Abraham Fleming (1577):
"This black dog, or the divel in such a linenesse (God hee knoweth al who worketh all,) runing all along down the body of the church with great swiftnesse, and incredible haste, among the people, in a visible fourm and shape, passed between two persons, as they were kneeling uppon their knees, and occupied in prayer as it seemed, wrung the necks of them bothe at one instant clene backward, in somuch that even at a mome[n]t where they kneeled, they stra[n]gely dyed.

THE STORY OF BLACK SHUCK

Suffolk folk! I've lived here all my life and I haven't got a fucking clue what they are saying... Frankie

BLACK SHUCK  WAS FORMED IN 1098 BY A ROGUE DIVISION OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.  BORED WITH SAVING RELICS AND UPHOLDING THE WORD OF GOD THEY DECIDED TO BREAK AWAY AND FORM A NEW CLUB, ONE THAT WOULD HOLD AND ATTEND PARTY'S WITH A VIEW TO GETTING STONED , HAVING FUN AND RIDING MOTORBIKES. HOWEVER THEY SOON REALISED THAT MOTORBIKES HADN'T BEEN INVENTED YET AND SO BLACK SHUCK HC
(HORSE CLUB) WAS FORMED.