{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/654ad329cce18a00126fc22c/6738c6e896b35bc4592631f1?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"#39 Origins of Rome & The Black Shuck","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/654ad329cce18a00126fc22c/1731770498621-6c44ebab-4a78-4072-9dd4-17341bddc167.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>We have a studio audience today- Say hi mom!</p><p>Jack really drums up the sibling rivalry with the foundational Myth of Rome's origins where we meet Romulus &amp; Remus. Shakira is paramount in this tale. Then Jana takes us to the English Countryside and creeps us out with the legend of the Black Shuck....who might just be the goodest boy.</p><p><br></p><p>Sites &amp; Sources:</p><p><a href=\"https://www.worldhistory.org/Romulus_and_Remus/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">World History Org</a></p><p><br></p><p>{<a href=\"http://In%20English%20folklore,%20Black%20Shuck,%20Old%20Shuck,%20Old%20Shock%20or%20simply%20Shuck%20is%20the%20name%20given%20to%20a%20ghostly%20black%20dog%20which%20is%20said%20to%20roam%20the%20coastline%20and%20countryside%20of%20East%20Anglia,%20one%20of%20many%20such%20black%20dogs%20recorded%20in%20folklore%20across%20the%20British%20Isles.%5B2%5D%5Bbetter%20source%20needed%5D%20Accounts%20of%20Black%20Shuck%20form%20part%20of%20the%20folklore%20of%20Norfolk,%20Suffolk,%20the%20Cambridgeshire%20Fens%20and%20Essex,%20and%20descriptions%20of%20the%20creature's%20appearance%20and%20nature%20vary%20considerably;%20it%20is%20sometimes%20recorded%20as%20an%20omen%20of%20death,%20but,%20in%20other%20instances,%20is%20described%20as%20companionable.%5B3%5D%5B4%5D%5B5%5D%20%20According%20to%20the%20Oxford%20English%20Dictionary,%20the%20name%20Shuck%20derives%20from%20the%20Old%20English%20word%20scucca%20'devil,%20fiend',%20perhaps%20from%20the%20root%20skuh%20'to%20terrify'.%5B6%5D%20The%20first%20mention%20in%20print%20of%20%22Black%20Shuck%22%20is%20by%20Reverend%20E.%20S.%20Taylor%20in%20an%201850%20edition%20of%20the%20journal%20Notes%20and%20Queries%20which%20describes%20%22Shuck%20the%20Dog-fiend%22;%20%22This%20phantom%20I%20have%20heard%20many%20persons%20in%20East%20Norfolk,%20and%20even%20Cambridgeshire,%20describe%20as%20having%20seen%20as%20a%20black%20shaggy%20dog,%20with%20fiery%20eyes%20and%20of%20immense%20size,%20and%20who%20visits%20churchyards%20at%20midnight.%22%5B7%5D%20%20Abraham%20Fleming's%20account%20of%20the%20appearance%20of%20A%20strange,%20and%20terrible%20wunder%20in%201577%20at%20Bungay,%20Suffolk%20is%20a%20famous%20account%20of%20the%20beast.%20Images%20of%20sinister%20black%20dogs%20have%20become%20part%20of%20the%20iconography%20of%20the%20area%20and%20have%20appeared%20in%20popular%20culture.%5B1%5D%20Writing%20in%201877,%20Walter%20Rye%20stated%20that%20Shuck%20was%20%22the%20most%20curious%20of%20our%20local%20apparitions,%20as%20they%20are%20no%20doubt%20varieties%20of%20the%20same%20animal.%22%5B8%5D\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wiki</a>}</p><p>{<a href=\"https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Shuck\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">fandom</a>}</p><p>{<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx0EcWioHQ8&amp;t=615s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">youtube</a>}</p>","author_name":"Jack & Jana"}