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Anydragon · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject: The Lambton Worm

The Lambton Worm

John Lambton, fishing one day, caught the ugliest creature he had ever seen. It was black and slimy, with the head of a salamander and needle sharp teeth. It was only small, but very powerful. Uncertain what to do with the creature, he threw it down a nearby well.

Many years later, when John was away at the crusades, the now adult worm crawled out of the well and started to terrorise the area, killing everything in it's path. Some brave men tried to fight it, once even slicing it in half, but to their dismay, the halves just joined back together again.

Back from the crusades, John visited a wise woman to gain her advice on how to destroy the beast. She told him that the only way to kill it was fight it near the river, wearing a suit of armour covered with with razor sharp spear heads. She also told him that if he was victorious he must kill the first living thing he met after he crossed the threshold of his home or the Lambton name would be cursed for nine generations.

John had a local blacksmith create the special armour and instructed his servants that if he won the battle, to release his old hound to meet him on his return. In that way would he avoid the curse.

When John confronted the dragon, it immediately wrapped it's coils around him, and fell in many pieces to the river, to be instantly swept away before being able to rejoin. In a few short minutes the worm was dead and John was on his way back home. Unfortunately, the servants forgot to release the hound, and instead he was greeted by his father. Unable to kill his father, the curse befell the family for nine generations.

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