Loathly Worm

Also called Laidley Worm, Laidly Worm, Laidley Worm of Spindleston Heugh, Laidly Worm of Bamborough.

The Loathly Worm is the wingless, two-legged dragon of British border legend — most famously a bespelled princess at Spindleston Heugh, restored by her brother's three kisses.

Tradition: British folklore
Region: Northern England (place of origin)
Trait family: The Night-Comers
Symbols: Dragon

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Symbols

Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.

Dragon is image-domain The dragon denotes chaotic instinctual power, guardian of hoarded treasure and fertility, destructive in the West and, in China, the beneficent waterlike way of things.
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The Loathly Worm is the wingless, two-legged dragon of British border legend — most famously a bespelled princess at Spindleston Heugh, restored by her brother's three kisses.

Traits

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Form

Cursed into monstrous form
why
The princess Margaret was turned into a loathly worm by her stepmother the queen and banished to the Spindleston hills, where her poisonous breath blighted the country for miles until the people feared a permanent wasteland.

Sight and sound

Venomous breath or bite poisons pastures
why
The princess Margaret was turned into a loathly worm by her stepmother the queen and banished to the Spindleston hills, where her poisonous breath blighted the country for miles until the people feared a permanent wasteland.

Roles

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