Myths Of Great Britain.

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Shug... scucca... Do you suppose these words may relate to "shuck", as in "black shuck"?

I think it does connect to that colloquialism, the Black Shuck phenomena was actually the one I was just reading
about and I was wondering what the 'back-story' might be. Dogs are seen as loyal and yet in this mythical situation,
the Black Shuck, -a ghostly dog of negative foretelling, is a creature to avoid and smacks of little fidelity.

We had a similar phenomena around here, and curiously enough it was in the 50's too.
It was called the "Devil Monkey", which would seem to relate to the phrase "shug monkey" in a hillbilly sort of way if
shug comes from scucca, a demon of sorts.

I believe the first sighting was just a few mile from where I sit, Most of the descriptions seemed to fit a very large,
very angry baboon-like critter...

I'd agree with you, it must be a description of a similar creature and oddly enough, in the same time-frame of
what this 'Bobby-on-the-beat' and dog-walker supposedly witnessed. But would an adult in two separate parts
of the world imagine two comparable 'monsters' for the sake of scaring kids?

Or would Occam's Razor be applied and suggest a Devil Monkey and a Shug Monkey were simply seen?