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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“One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,—the Christian fable. With what pains, and tears, and blood these centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind! The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and patience, and persistency has this mythus been stamped on the memory of the race! It would seem as if it were in the progress of our mythology to dethrone Jehovah, and crown Christ in his stead.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)