Worm - Image in Mythology, Literature, and Art

Image in Mythology, Literature, and Art

See also: List of fictional worms and Fictional depictions of worms

Worms are sometimes used as a metaphor of putrefaction or corruption; a corpse may be said to be "fed to the worms".

Examples:

• Hamlet, Shakespeare
• Twelfth Night, Shakespeare
• The Battleship Potemkin
• "The Conqueror Worm", a poem in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Ligeia"
• "The Festival", a short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Wall, Pink Floyd. Worms are used to represent the main character's slipping grasp on reality, and are "eating into his brain"
• In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth pseudo-mythology, "worm" (and "drake") is a term for dragon