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The Lambton Worm
Where would a monster round-up be without a dragon? This worm-like example comes from Northumbria where John, heir to the Lambton estate, skips church one Sunday to go fishing. Ignoring warnings from a wise old man, he pulls up a bizarre creature from the River Wear. Deciding he’s caught the devil, he chucks it down a well, grows up and goes off on the crusades. The now-huge dragon crawls out and begins to eat everything it can find – John’s father calms it with daily gallons of milk and impoverishes himself keeping it sated.
When John returns, he follows the advice of a local witch and welds a bunch of spearheads to his armour so that the beast cannot crush him in its coils. He manages to chop it to pieces and the bits are washed away by the river but when his dear old dad rushes to congratulate him, John cannot bring himself to do as the witch instructed and kill the first living thing he sees, condemning nine generations of his family to early deaths.
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