31. Black Shuck ~ and the hounds of the liminal lands

An archetype, a creature that we impose human ideas, ideals, values and characteristics upon? A real, spectral being, visiting us from the demonic world? Or simply our domestic companion for thousands of years that we have venerated, commemorated and depicted in myriad ways? Hounds have been - and continue to be - all of these for us humans.

As a denizen of the wild around them, humans have encountered wolves, jackals and dogs dependent upon geography, and those cultures have found ways to bring those relationships into myth, legend, worship, movies and more. In this episode we ponder Anubis in Egypt and the Beast of Bray Road, Robert Johnson’s ‘Hellhound on My Trail’ and the legend of East Anglia’s ‘Black Shuck’.

THEME MUSIC BY COLIN WILLIAMS

Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:

Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
Black Shuck
East Anglia
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 
Flag Fen
Caldicot
Shamanism
Saint Christopher
New Testament
Bog bodies
River Styx
Spanish Water Dog
Anubis
Sirius
Tutankhamun 
Werewolf
Dogman Encounters Radio
Beast of Bray Road
Jung
Archetypes
Jackal
Osiris
Sumarian Goddess Bau
The Omen
Lycanthrope
Beowulf
Grendel
Scucca
Hellhound on My Trail
Robert Johnson
Delta Blues
Gospel music
Caerwent
Staines
Leiston Abbey
Felixstowe
Gorleston
Long Island
Ipswich