some menacing clouds near the Design Centre today... the moon was out at the same time which was a bit weird/exciting.
I've noticed the "Lambton Worm" coming up time and time again when I'm trawling around Sunderland-related things.
Here's a song about the Lambton Worm, too!
Full story of The Lambton Worm (click it)
A very VERY summarised-by-me version of the Lambton Worm story
A man called John Lambton is fishing, catches a black worm with a salamander's head. An old man tells him its dodgy, so he throws it into a well. The worm grows and grows and a few years later it has crawled out of the well and is eating sheep and drinking the milk from the cows' udders. John has been away fighting in crusades and when he comes back he decides to kill the worm. A wise old lady tells him that he needs a special razor-sharp suit, and he needs to kill the first person he sees after the worm is killed, otherwise his family will be cursed! He has his special suit made with razor sharp bits on it, and stays overnight in a chapel. He goes to kill the worm, and it gets all sliced up from John's special suit, and dies. He toots his bugle to tell everyone the worm is dead, and his Dad runs out to congratulate him. John cannot bring himself to kill his own Dad, and so his family is cursed.
Next week i'm going to go up Penshaw monument and see the hill and the rock that the worm sat on. Fun times!
we used to sing this at school lmfao!!!
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