Mythology and Legends
- The Lambton Worm, of 15th-century English legend, also made into an opera by Robert Sherlaw Johnson
- 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.
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“The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.”
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