Tudor Britain

1485 to 1603, spanning the Reformation, the dissolution of the monasteries and the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Religious upheaval left its own folklore — ruined abbeys, dispossessed ghosts — while the era's cheap pamphlet press first put many oral traditions, including several black-dog sightings, into print.

BeastsBlack ShuckNorfolkA spectral black dog with blazing eyes the size of saucers, said to roam the coastline and heathlands of East Anglia. A single glance is an omen of death within the year.

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