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The stoor worm, or Mester Stoor Worm, was a gigantic evil sea serpent of Orcadian folklore, capable of contaminating plants and destroying animals and humans with its putrid breath. It is probably an Orkney variant of the Norse Jörmungandr , also known as the Midgard Serpent, or world serpent, and has been described as a sea dragon.
Assipattle and the Stoor Worm is an Orcadian folktale relating the battle between the eponymous hero and a gigantic sea serpent known as the stoor worm. The tale was preserved by 19th-century antiquarian Walter Traill Dennison , and retold by another Orcadian folklorist, Ernest Marwick , in a 20th-century version that integrates Dennison's ...
The Linton Worm is a mythical beast referred to in a Scottish Borders legend dating back to the 12th century. "Wyrm" is the Old English for serpent.A 12th-century writer believed it to be "In length three Scots yards and bigger than an ordinary man’s leg – in form and callour to our common muir edders."
The Worm of Sockburn, of 14th-century English legend. The Worm of Linton, of 12th-century Scottish legend. The Laidley Worm of Bamburgh. The Mongolian Death Worm, a cryptozoological creature reported to exist in the Gobi Desert. The Stoor worm, of Orcadian folklore. Minhocão (legendary creature) - an earthworm or fish-like creature of ...
Stoor worm, an Orcadian sea serpent slain by the hero Assipattle. Lambton Worm, according to Northumbrian legend, curled around Worm Hill near Fatfield in northeast England, eating livestock and children, and was killed during the time of the Crusades by a Sir John Lambton. Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, of Northumbrian legend. Worm of ...
There are versions of a headless horseman in Irish as well as Scottish legend. The Irish version is the dullahan, meaning "dark man." It is a headless demonic fairy that carries its own head under ...
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