Worm of Lambton

The worm of Lambton is a giant worm resulting from the Folklore English. It is known to have terrorized the county of Durham, and to have made weigh terrible a Malédiction on nine generations of Lambton.

Physical description

The worm of Lambton has a body of Serpent deprived members. Its jaw contains hundreds of particularly sharpened teeth. Each side of its neck presents nine gills from where oozes a nauseous liquid. Its body secretes a scum blanchâtre which makes decay grass on which it rests. The breath which its mouth exhales is poisoned and burns the sheets of the close trees.

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The history occurs to the village from Washington, in the county of Durham in England. The morning of Easter of the year 1420, John Lambton, the heir discharged to the castle of Lambton, fished in the river Wear horrible a Serpent equipped with a face of demon, which it took for the incarnation of his youthful indiscretions. Taken of panic, it débarassa of the Monster by throwing it in a well. Then, wanting repentance of its sins, it left in Pèlerinage in Holy Land.

During this time, the Créature became extensive more and more, so much so that one day the puit became too narrow for it. She escaped and crawled about it towards the close hill, leaving on her passage a smoking and acid trace. She had so much grows that she could make nine times it tower of the hill with her rings. She then put herself to sow terror in the area, devastating harvests and the forests, devouring the cattle and the children. The inhabitants were forced to be locked up on their premises, fearing the Malédiction giant worm. They found however a solution with their misfortunes. Taking as a starting point an old receipt, which was used at the origin to calm the dragons, they tried appaiser the Serpent while giving him to drinking milk. Thus, a morning, they filled with fresh milk a gigantic trough, that the Monstre goal with greed. And indeed, it remained calm the day and the night which followed. But morning according to, when the Serpent saw that there was no more milk at its disposal, it was taken of fury. To avoid attracting the lightnings of the Creature, the inhabitants reflect all the cows of the area with contribution. Of course, some courageous knights tried to kill the worm using lances and of swords. But, when by miracle they managed to divide the Monstre into two, the parts were remelted, returning the life to him.

When John Lambton was of return, it was horrified by the vision at the hill, surrounded of the rings of the Serpent. It decided that was with him to put the stupid at death. He learned from an old woman Sorcière that, to come to end from the worm, he was to kill it in the river from where he had fished it, while vêtant himself of a special armor, equipped with sharp blades. There was also another condition: after having killed the worm, it was to assassinate the first nobody whom it would meet, to prevent that the curse does not fall down on its line.

Having involved the Monster to the river Wear, John Lambton started the combat. When the worm was rolled up around him to choke it, the blades of the armor divided it in nine pieces, which were carried by the floods.

Once the monster occit, John returned towards the castle and crossed his/her father. Not being able to be solved to kill the old man, it sacrificed his most faithful Chien, hoping that would be enough to avoid the curse. Unfortunately, that is not enough, and during nine generations, its heirs died in atrocious circumstances.

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