Rose, Carol (2001). Giants, Monsters, and Dragons. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-32211-4. The Dark Huntsman". Legendarydartmoor.co.uk. 28 October 2007. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013 . Retrieved 18 June 2012. Crowe, Cameron (1993). The Complete Studio Recordings (Boxed set booklet). Led Zeppelin. New York City: Atlantic Records. OCLC 29660775. 82526-2.

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] The basic story is that the dog was ill-treated by his master and managed to escape but did not know where to go. This was the morning of the day he appeared in the church. He just wanted to shelter from this awful storm. The story tells what happens when the children are suddenly confronted by this apparently savage animal and discover his side of the story.' Local accounts attribute the event to the Devil - The scorch marks on the door of Blythburgh Church are referred to by the locals as "the devil’s fingerprints" which can be seen at the church to this day.Campbell, John Gregorson (1900). Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons.

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.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 ] Godric Cycling Club is based in Bungay. [15] It organises a number of events each year, including weekly club runs. The noted French writer, politician, diplomat and historian, François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand while exiled from France, 1792 – 1800, during the Revolution spent a period living at the Music House, No. 34 Bridge Street. This is recorded on a blue plaque. [16] Hilsdon, Sonia. Jersey Witches, Ghosts & Traditions. Norwich: Jarrold Colour Publications, 1984. Print. Porter, Enid (1969). Cambridgeshire customs and folklore: with Fenland material provided. Taylor & Francis. p.53.

Steiger, Brad (2011). Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside. Visible Ink Press. ISBN 9781578592203. The history turns to folklore at the funeral of Henry Hobart. After dying of his wound in the hall itself, his family buried his body in the grounds. During the service, a dog came and sat at the feet of the Sexton, whining loudly. Later that day, Henry’s body was found torn from the ground and from his lead coffin and laid out on the grass. The family attempted to bury him again, this time in the woods nearby, but the ‘common ground spat it out’. His body was finally weighted with stones and lowered into the lake. A few days afterwards, the gamekeeper caught a “monstrous eel” from the waters while fishing. Although it looked ‘evil in appearance’ he took it home to cook in a stew. 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]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. New Bungay town reeve unveiled for 2023 as tradition continues". Beccles & Bungay Journal . Retrieved 3 January 2023. All down the church in midst of fire, the hellish monster flew, and, passing onward to the quire, he many people slew. [14]

The original church that the monks built now lies in ruins, a replacement being built in 1858. If you go and look at the cornerstones of the old charnel house you may see what looks like large teeth marks. It is said that the wolf-hound has been trying to bite its way through the wall for centuries, trying to get to the bones of the monks that rested inside. Although the bones are no longer present, locals still avoid the ruins at night. When the shadows are long, it’s just possible that there could be an enormous hound with a thirst for Christian blood hiding nearby. Barber, Sally and Barber, Chips (1988, 1990). Dark and Dastardly Dartmoor. Obelisk Publications. ISBN 0-946651-26-4. 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.

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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. It's basically a children's book but because the subject is also of interest to adults who follow the legend - and there are many - it is a book for all the family to enjoy,' says Terry. The 16th century saw great changes at St Mary’s. After 1536 when the Priory closed as a result of the dissolution of the lesser monasteries by King Henry VIII, the nuns quire and the nunnery buildings were allowed to go to ruin. Whilst the nave and aisles were retained as the parish church with the Reformation in the mid-16th century, much of the colour and carving, the great Rood, the statues and a host of other visual aids to teach the faithful were removed and the interior was equipped for the liturgical requirements of the reformed church with its services and scriptures in English. More damage was done by the Puritans in 1643-44 in their zeal to rid churches of superstitious images and inscriptions. Hausman, Gerald and Hausman, Loretta (1997). The Mythology of Dogs: Canine Legend St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-18139-6. McNab, Chris "Mythical Monsters: The scariest creatures from legends, books, and movies" in Scholastic Publishing 2006, pp. 8–9.