Re: Scucca
| From: | Michael Poxon <mike@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 17, 2007, 14:55 |
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The modern English version of this term is "Shock". Not the electrical sort,
but meaning a (vaguely demonic) spiritual presence, bogle, etc. In this part
of the world we have a ghostly black dog called "Black Shuck" who has been
seen on numerous occasions. In the West of the county in the Fens, a local
brweery has him as their logo, and a marathon held at Bungay
(Norfolk-Suffolk border) is called the "Black Dog marathon", named after
him.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Finsen" <lars.finsen@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 2:26 PM
Subject: Scucca
>I wonder if any of you experts know anything about the etymology of the OE
>word _scucca_, which may be useful for religious conculturing as it
>apparently signifies some sort of spiritual being or other.
>
> LEF
>
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