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

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Darts professional Andrew Gilding lives in Bungay. Gilding won the PDC's UK Open tournament in 2023, defeating Michael van Gerwen 11-10 in the final at Butlin's Minehead Resort. While the congregation were assembled for worship, a thunderstorm blew up a –“great terryble & ferfull tempest… such darknes, Rayne, hayle, Thunder & lightyng as was never seen the lyke”, as it was described in the contemporary Churchwardens’ Account book. The festival was established in 2022 to reclaim the legend, and the date, for the town of Bungay and will run for 3 days in August. There will be a varied programme of events including a carnival parade and an art display

Shipton, Clifford K (1970). Sibley's Harvard Graduates; Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp.404–406. Westwood, Jennifer; Simpson, Jacqueline; Kingshill, Sophia (2008). The Penguin Book of Ghosts. Penguin Books.In Guernsey is Bodu or tchen Bodu ( tchen being dog in Dgèrnésiais). His appearance, usually in the Clos du Valle, foretells death of the viewer or someone close to him. [41] Capelthwaite [ edit ] a b "Bungay welcomes new town reeve to unique and ancient role". Eastern Daily Press . Retrieved 3 January 2023. Bungay was important for the printing and paper manufacture industries. Joseph Hooper, a wealthy Harvard University graduate who fled Massachusetts when his lands were seized after the American Revolution, rented a mill at Bungay in 1783 and converted it to paper manufacture. [5] Charles Brightly established a printing and stereotype foundry in 1795. Then in partnership with John Filby Childs, the business became Brightly & Childs in 1808 and later Messrs. Childs and Son. [6] Charles Childs (1807–1876) succeeded his father as the head of the firm of John Childs & Son. [7] The business was further expanded after 1876 as R. Clay and Sons, Ltd. [8] Long, Siobhan (13 November 2020). "Laura Cannell & Stewart Lee: These Feral Lands Volume 1 – A fevered collection". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 27 March 2022. In 2008, Bungay became Suffolk's first Transition Town and part of a global network of communities that have started projects in the areas of food, transport, energy, education, housing and waste as small-scale local responses to the global challenges of climate change, economic hardship and limited of cheap energy.

More recently, Formula 1 motor racing president Bernie Ecclestone was brought up in Bungay and internet activist Julian Assange was confined to nearby Ellingham Hall, Norfolk in 2010–11. Authors Elizabeth Jane Howard [17] and Louis de Bernières [18] have lived in the town. Blind artist Sargy Mann moved to Bungay in 1990 and lived there until the end of his life. [19] Luke Wright (poet) has lived in Bungay since 2010. [20] Children's author and illustrator James Mayhew currently lives in Bungay. [21] A maximum of 10 items at a time suitable for the current or forthcoming season will be accepted. Please bring items on hangers (where possible). All items should be freshly laundered and in pristine condition. Customers can bring in 10 items each month but no more than 10 at any one time. 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. The encounter on the same day at St Mary's Church, Bungay was described in A Straunge and Terrible Wunder by Abraham Fleming in 1577: Porter, Enid. "The folklore of East Anglia". 1974 Part 2. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help)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. Crosby, Alan (2000). The Lancashire Dictionary of Dialect, Tradition and Folklore. Smith Settle. ISBN 1-85825-122-2. From sparsely populated central Delaware (specifically the towns of Frederica and Felton) comes the myth of the Fence Rail Dog, said to be a ghost that is as tall as a fence and races cars along Route 12 but is wholly harmless. There are three variants of the myth; one is that it is the ghost of a cornered outlaw who committed suicide, another is that it is that of a slave killed by his master and looking for a place to be buried, while a third one says it is that of a dog murdered along with its owner, and looks to avenge both of them. [105] 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.