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Sunil's avatar

> My only disappointment is that antiquity hasn’t blessed us with one or two stories of a brave knight heading off over the hills to rescue a damsel from the clutches of a fierce, fire-breathing worm.

Apart from the fire-breathing part, the story of the Lampton Worm might possibly count.

I remember it from a kids book on dragons that my school library had. And I recognised the retelling of it when much later I came across Ken Russel's weird/cool movie Lair Of The White Worm, where the mythical monster is renamed the Dampton Worm.

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Ken Grace's avatar

Fascinating! Thank you, Sunil! I've just read up on this story on Wikipedia, and it's a goodie. Nice to know that at least one story of a giant worm/dragon has survived all these years.

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