Black Shuck is said to roam the Norfolk coastline.
- Credit: Archant Library/Sam Robbins
You may have seen Amelia Opie, Norwich’s pioneering anti-slavery heroine – she looks down on us all from the rooftops on the street named after her in the city. But Weird Norfolk wonders if was she also seen by another of Norfolk’s famous names – Black Shuck - when she took a seaside break just outside Cromer in 1829…
Black Shuck haunts Norfolk folklore, a dark figure “as big as a calf and as noiseless as death” stalking through the county since the 16th century. Seen across the county, and in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex, Black Shuck takes many forms and has many purposes, a true manifestation of everyone’s fear, a creature you definitely do not want to see on a dark and stormy night.