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Location: Wiggenhall St. Mary Magdalen, NORFOLK
Legend: "Magdalen's Shucky Dog was said to be a great black animal which used to gallop over the fields on moonless nights, making no sound apart from the rattling of a broken piece of chain round its neck."
Source: Arthur Randell: 'Sixty Years a Fenman' (Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1966), p.100.
Place Name: Wiggenhall - OE 'Wicga's nook of land'
Other: See also under Dubious Cases.

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