Stoick GASPS as if seeing a ghost… and drops his sword with a clatter. Valka stands some twenty paces ahead of him, blocking the path. She lets out an audible SHUDDER upon seeing him. He removes his helmet slowly as Hiccup, Gobber, and Toothless appear at Stoick’s side.
It is thought that the first written reference to Black Shuck was in the year 1450. The writing comes from Dartford, Kent, England, where a man named Jack Cade was claimed to have “rered upp the Divell in the semblaunce of a black dogge”.
