On August 4, 1577, a thunderstorm broke out over the English town of Bangui on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk counties. A "terrible-looking creature" burst into the local church right during the service, which "having run through the entire church, found itself between two kneeling parishioners and incinerated them at once."
What was it? The chronicler writes that after the "creature" remained "on the stones of the church, as well as on the church gates, incredibly broken and broken, as if traces of his claws." And here is how the artist of the local Chronicles portrayed the "creature of a terrible appearance":
Whom, or rather, what does this drawing remind us of?
We hope everyone knows the quote:) But back to the "creature from Bangui". It is known that on August 4, 1577, there really was a severe thunderstorm in Bangui, as reported in the parish book. There is not a word about a dog or any other animal.
The cause of death of parishioners and destruction could have been ball lightning, but the editor of the Chronicle could use one of the local beliefs to more easily convince the parishioners that a monstrous thunderstorm was sent to them for their sins.
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Since ancient times, the British believed in a huge black dog with luminous eyes the size of a saucer. Local Puritans considered him the guardian of hell and the messenger of the devil.
On April 4, 1931, a student from England, who was visiting Ireland, in County Derry, saw a huge black dog swimming along the river with terrible teeth and eyes, "like glowing coals";
in 1938, the Englishman Ernest Whiteland, returning on foot from the town of Bangui (on the border of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk) to his home in Ditchingham, saw a dog the size of a pony, with thick black fur and glowing red eyes;
in 1963 in Norfolk, a driver driving down the road in early summer hit a black dog, which "exploded on the spot";
in 1970, a woman from Somerset was terribly frightened by a dog she met at Budsley Hill - "huge with eyes like a saucer"
Did all these people remember The Hound of the Baskervilles, written in 1900, or were they imagining more ancient myths?