#lampton worm

[atundratoadstool]

"Stoker was not actually that good a writer most of the time," - so compared to the glorious mess (to me) that the 1988 Lair Of The White Worm film is, how is Stoker's book? I have a soft spot for the film as it's the only place I've heard a rock rendition of The Lampton Worm.

The 1988 Lair of the White Worm film is profound and compelling high art in comparison to the novel. The novel is not good. I cannot in good faith recommend it. It is hideously sexist. It is hideously racist. The plot makes very little sense. The villain casually tears innocent mongooses (mongeese?) in half.

The arguments in favor of reading it are A) it is a complete Freudian nightmare of a text that I would argue gives one a lot of insight into the issues that pervade all of Stoker's work B) it is very very zany in ways that can occasionally veer into so-bad-it's-almost-good. There's the aforementioned mongoose murder. Another villain has an evil mesmeric kite that is never explained. The novel's I Can't Believe It's not Van Helsing just sits around casually explaining how the only explanation for his mentee's weird neighbor has to be giant primordial worms. It is a far wilder trip than the movie, but I must emphasize that it is very very bad.

#Bram Stoker #The Lair of the White Worm #The Lair of the White Worm 1988 #The D'Ampton Worm song absolutely slaps... I can attest

[steeltraptrainer]

Intro Post

Hey y'all! I'm Ferro, a student over in Paldea. I specialize in Steel types, but my team isn't all steel types. I started out with a Sprigatito, and have a Clodsire too. I'm also kinda deaf, so I just... shut off my ears sometimes. Feel free to send me asks!

My journey's catalogue by the #travel journal, if you're interested!

My Team:

Purrlet, my Meowscarada. He was my starter, and I love him. Best cat.

El Woowoo, by Clodsire. Best boy, my counter for fire types.

Ratchet, my Corviknight. He's a crotchety bird, with a competetive streak a mile wide.

Scraplet, my Tinkaton. She and Ratchet get on surprisingly well. I think it's like cats that tolerate each other.

Sir Lampton, my really really big Orthworm. He used to be a titan, and is a really fun worm friend.

Torque, my Revavroom. She's the newest addition, and kicks ass!

Lizard, who's apparently a Koraidon. Lizard has no brain cells and loves sandwiches. She's like some roided up Cyclizar and I love her.

My revolving teammates are as follows:

Orannjé, my Metagross. I got him (chosen pronouns) from my cousin in Unova. He's still young, and originally from Hoenn!

Dewdrop, my Empoleon. I got him on the trip to Kitakami, and he got to evolution in like two days, because he ate my entire stash of rare candies. He liked battling in Kitakami, but these days he tends to chill at home with my Mamá and helps her water our crops.

Alloy, a shiny Skarmory that I have gotten as a gift from my cousin as well. She is relatively new, and arrived with Orannjé, but she listens very well.

Hi hello! This blog is run by @kayuripax, and I am essentially chronicling my second scarlet playthrough here. When uni gives me the time, that is

#unreality #pokémon #pokemon irl #pokemon rp #travel journal

[talloola13]

I finished this amazingly fun sleeve today on the lovely Stu, it was an absolute pleasure from beginning to end! The Beastie Boys robot fighting a Japanese dragon inspired lampton worm having a fight at penshaw monument was the request stu gave me, this was the outcome! 🤖🐲 #tightlinestattoostudio #jenmaw #sunderland #northeastengland #tyneandwear #fusionink #killerinktattoosupplies #cheyennetattooequipment #hustlebutterfoam #inkofcocotattooaftercare #femaletattooartist #ladytattooers #ladytattooartist #ladytattooer #beastieboystattoo #beastieboys #penshawmonument #guyswithtattoos #completedsleeve #tattoo #colourtattoo (at Tight Lines Tattoo Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkRMlZlo8wx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#tightlinestattoostudio #jenmaw #sunderland #northeastengland #tyneandwear #fusionink #killerinktattoosupplies #cheyennetattooequipment #hustlebutterfoam #inkofcocotattooaftercare #femaletattooartist #ladytattooers #ladytattooartist #ladytattooer #beastieboystattoo #beastieboys #penshawmonument #guyswithtattoos #completedsleeve #tattoo #colourtattoo

[dissociative-disaster]

In case anyone’s confused about the acronym:

#lgbtq #acronym #french #latin language #old timey english words #lampton worm

[1ightsen]

now that we got a likely UK based Pokémon region, how about a Lampton Worm legendary Pokémon? Here's a quick idea for it's design. Water/poison (the legend basically goes: young lad throws it in a well when its small, and it grows giant with hate and seeks revenge on the kingdom. also poisoning the water) imagine in game you unlock a huge creepy dungeon under the castle to meet it. its a north east english water serpent style mon!

#pokémon #gen8 #lampton worm #fanmon #fakemon

[man-creates-dinosaurs]

SPOOKY PALEONTOLOGY: THE (OC)CULT OF NESSIE One reason I haven’t been blogging as much here is that I’ve been busy with various academic projects including two book chapters, submissions for conference presentations, serving as a member of the steering committee for this year’s Religion and Monsters panel at the AAR, getting the long awaited second installment of Scholars Talking Toku up, and preparing to start applying for PhD programs at the end of the year.

One of the books I recently contributed to is tentatively titled “Paranormal and Popular-Culture” and should be coming out from Routledge early next year. The volume was conceived and edited by Darryl Caterine and John W. Morehead. My contribution was a chapter on the intersection of cryptozoology and science-fiction in which I endeavored to show that the central aims and obsessions of cryptozoology (i.e. the discovery of monstrous creatures alive in the world today) can be found to have originated in the realm of fantastic fiction.

My original draft for this chapter was over 11,000-words and had to be drastically reduced at the behest of the publisher (actually the entire book had to be shortened apparently). So I decided I could make use of some of that research here on my blog and just in time for Halloween. In this case I want to talk about lake monsters. Spooky lake monsters. Specifically the Loch Ness Monster.  

Though reports of a monster living in Loch Ness don’t begin until 1933 the idea of such a creature dwelling somewhere within the British Isles can be found in The Lair of the White Worm; a horror novel by Dracula author Bram Stoker originally published in 1911 by Rider and Son of London with interior color illustrations by Tarot Card artist Pamela Colman Smith. In 1925 an abridged version of the novel was issued, losing more than 100 pages and 12 chapters.

Set in Derbyshire, England The Lair of the White Worm concerns Australian transplant Adam Salton who has traveled to meet his great-uncle, Richard Salton, as Adam is destined to become the heir of the family estate. As Adam quickly learns, however, high strangeness of various kinds is at work in the surrounding countryside including the death of livestock, mysterious black snakes slithering about, a child with vampire-like bite marks on her neck, hostile pigeons, and the mysterious Arabella March who lives nearby in a house located in Diana’s Grove; an area known to have once been the center of pagan religious rites.

Eager to get to the bottom of these various mysteries, Richard introduces Adam to his friend Sir Nathaniel de Salis; who fulfills the Van Helsing role in this novel of occult scholar. In Chapter 5, “The White Worm,” Sir Nathaniel fills Adam in on the various legends concerning Diana’s Grove including that it is the lair of a monstrous albino serpent or dragon; what the Anglo-Saxon’s called a ‘wyrm,’ hence the novel’s title. When Adam displays some skepticism about such tales Sir Nathaniel informs him that…

“A glance at a geological map will show that whatever truth there may have been of the actuality of such monsters in the early geologic periods, at least there was plenty of possibility.  In England there were originally vast plains where the plentiful supply of water could gather.  The streams were deep and slow, and there were holes of abysmal depth, where any kind and size of antediluvian monster could find a habitat.  In places, which now we can see from our windows, were mud-holes a hundred or more feet deep.  Who can tell us when the age of the monsters which flourished in slime came to an end? There must have been places and conditions which made for greater longevity, greater size, greater strength than was usual.  Such over-lappings may have come down even to our earlier centuries.” (p. 187 in Penguin Classic’s Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Tales, 2007)

Here we see that Sir Nathaniel is something of a proto-cryptozoologist and like his 20th-Century contemporaries advances the idea that the menacing white worm, like Nessie, is a prehistoric holdover who has somehow managed to survive for millions of years in the supposedly “abysmal depths” of the United Kingdom’s many lakes and lochs. Of course, the novel ends with the revelation that the worm is real and dwells in a pit beneath Arabella March’s home in Diana’s Grove where March worships and feeds the beast who in turn appears to endow her with evil supernatural powers. Ultimately, Adam is able to dispatch the monster via the handy combination of dynamite and a well-placed lightning bolt.

In 1988, English filmmaker Ken Russell (1927-2011) filmed a theatrical adaptation of The Lair of the White Worm. Russell’s version actually puts more emphasis on the story’s latent paleontological elements. Rather than being set in the early 20th-Centrury the story is moved up to the present day (i.e. 1980s) and Adam Salton is recast as Angus Flint (Peter Capaldi; the Twelfth Doctor); a Scottish archaeologist excavating the site of a Roman era Christian convent in Derbyshire. Among the ruins Flint discovers what appears to be the skull of a dinosaur! The locals connect the skull to the legend of the d'Ampton wyrm, said to have been slain in Stonerich Cavern by John d'Ampton, the ancestor of current Lord of the Manor, James d'Ampton (Hugh Grant of Four Weddings and a Funeral [94] and Bridget Jones’s Diary [2001]). Flint attends a party at d’Ampton Manor where he meets James and the audience is treated to a rocking rendition of the legend of the d’Ampton wyrm (based on the real-life legend of the Lambton Worm).

Stonerich Cavern is connected to the home of the enigmatic Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe) who steals the skull from Flint and also abducts his girlfriend Eve. While a symbiotic relationship between Marsh and the White Worm is only hinted at in Stoker’s novel, it is explicit in Russell’s film with Marsh assuming the form of a silver-skinned serpentine vampire who’s appearance I would have to guess was inspired by the look of a similar monster seen in Hammer’s The Reptile (1966, dir. John Gilling). It is soon revealed that Marsh is the immortal priestess of an ancient pre-Christian snake god named Dionin whose next sacrifice is going to be Eve. In order to rescue his girlfriend and expunge the evil from the countryside Flint enlists the aid of James and the two mount an assault on Marsh and Dionin.  

For most cryptozoology enthusiasts, Nessie is believed to be an extant plesiosaur which somehow survived the K–Pg extinction event some 66-million-years ago. As a result the idea of Nessie being related to anything like the subject of Stoker’s The Lair of the White Worm – with its occult evil, secret cults, human sacrifice and vampires – may seem strange indeed. However at least one noted Nessie research drew just such a circle of connections around the Loch Ness Monster. That man was Fredrick William Holiday (1921–1979).

Like most Nessie researchers, Holiday started out proposing that Nessie was a prehistoric survivor. Not a plesiosaur but rather a Tully Monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium); a genus of soft-bodied bilaterian that lived during Late Carboniferous period some 323.2 million-years-ago to 298.9 million-years-ago and whose fossil remains were discovered in Illinois in the late 1960s. The exact nature of the Tully Monster is actually a source of great paleontological controversy which you can learn about here. Like all cryptozoologists expounding prehistoric survivor paradigm theories Holiday was at a loss to explain how the warm water Tully Monster had survived hundreds of millions of years in a cold lake on the other side of the world. He also had the not insignificant problem that the fossils of Tully Monster indicated that its maximum size was about 14-inches, pretty puny for the Loch Ness Monster. Nevertheless, Holiday put forth his Tully Monster theory in his 1968 book The Great Orm of Loch Ness; “orm” being another variation on “wyrm.”

However, as Holiday continued to research the Loch Ness Monster he began noticing strange things happening to him. This included his camera always malfunctioning whenever he tried to take a shot of Nessie, glimpses of mysterious orbs of light, apparent UFO sightings and experiences of missing time. As a result by the early 1970s Holiday ceased promoting the idea that Nessie was a Tully Monster and started claiming that it was a supernatural entity that was both the basis of ancient dragon legends and somehow connected to UFOs; hence the title of his second book: The Dragon and the Disc (1973). This trend in Holiday’s research continued and by the late 70s Holiday was apparently wrapped up in all kinds of occult phenomena and evidently claiming that Nessie was the object of reverence of a secret dragon cult practicing human sacrifice hidden in the surrounding Inverness environs. All this prompted Holiday’s final book The Goblin Universe (published in 1986, after his death) which was co-authored with sci-fi writer Colin Wilson; author of The Space Vampires (1976), which was later turned into the film Lifeforce (1986) directed by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) and scripted by Dan O’Bannon (Alien). You want a crazy Halloween double-feature? Watch Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm and Hooper’s Lifeforce back-to-back.   

#loch ness monster #nessie #cryptozoology #cryptid #bram stoker #vampire #the lair of the white worm #ken russell #ted holiday #lampton worm #peter capaldi #hugh grant #lake monster #colin wilson

[wickedsrest-rp-archive]

NAME: Vermortis

ALSO KNOWN AS: Olgoi-khorkhoi, Mongolian Death Worm, Shock Worm

RARITY: ★★☆☆☆

THREAT LEVEL: ★★★☆☆ | Don’t often seek out humans, but their electricity and acid make encounters with them very dangerous. One is often manageable but multiple require expert extermination.

ORIGIN: The vermortis is a cryptid said to inhabit the Gobi Desert. It was globally popularized by the works of Roy Chapman Andrews citing the accounts of Mongolian officials in 1922. The creature was described as a two foot long headless worm with a sausage-like body and deadly poisonous skin. It travels underground and can be detected by shifting sands. Vermortis are said to kill by spraying venom or unleashing an electric discharge.

DESCRIPTION: Vermortis are subterranean annelids that typically grow to around two feet long. They lack any sense of sight or hearing and navigate entirely through sensing vibrations. Most of the vermortis lifecycle takes place far underground, but they are drawn to the surface by activities that emit intense vibrations, such as construction equipment. Earthquakes can also cause vermortis to emerge en masse. Once drawn to the surface, they may decide to eat whatever they find there. 

Vermortis emit a field of ambient static and some cryptozoologist theorize this part of what allows them to travel through tunnels so quickly. This innate charge can destroy nearby electronics and underground power cables. They naturally secrete an acid that allows them to tunnel straight through concrete or the flesh of those who try to grab them.

ABILITIES: These worms are hazardous to touch because they secrete acid and can shock like an electric eel. Vermortis track vibrations over extended distances and burrow rapidly even through solid rock. Additionally, they’re able to spit their acid at range, which they use to dissolve large prey into an edible slurry.

WEAKNESS: Fortunately for everyone, vermortis have only animalistic intelligence, and their reliance on sensing vibrations mean that they can be tricked by those who stay completely still. While it’s not a good idea to touch them with skin or metal objects, vermortis can otherwise be slain by anything that’d feasibly kill a large snake. Beast hunters are immune to vermortis acid.

SUBSPECIES:

Lambton Worm: This European subspecies of vermortis prefers wet environments and look like lampreys with nine blowholes on each side of their body. Lampton worms lack the electricity of the Mongolian variety, but can grow quite large and regenerate pieces of themselves back together. Milk sends them to into hibernation.

Laidly Worm: This rare cave dwelling variety of human-sized vermortis are actually people transformed by a curse that is said to have originated in Scotland. Legend says that three kisses will break the curse, but those that encounter a Laidly worm rarely survive long enough to test it.

#monster #Thank you Tapir!

[docrotten]

THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (1988) – Episode 194 – Decades of Horror 1980s

“Oh, good! So you've taken to our local specialty. Pickled earthworms in aspic is not to everyone's taste, I can tell you.” By the way, aspic is a savory jelly made with meat stock, set in a mold, and used to contain pieces of meat, seafood, eggs, or, apparently, earthworms. Sound better now? Join your faithful Grue-Crew - Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr -  as they take a trip into the bizarre world of Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm (1988).

Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 194 – The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

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When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.

IMDb

  Writer/Director: Ken Russell

Adapted from the novel by: Bram Stoker

Selected Cast

Hugh Grant as Lord James D'Ampton

Amanda Donohoe as Lady Sylvia Marsh

Catherine Oxenberg as Eve Trent

Peter Capaldi as Angus Flint

Sammi Davis as Mary Trent

Stratford Johns as Peters

Paul Brooke as Ernie

Imogen Claire as Dorothy Trent

Chris Pitt as Kevin

Gina McKee as Nurse Gladwell

Christopher Gable as Joe Trent

The Lair of the White Worm is Crystal’s pick, but alas, she was unavailable and we had to go ahead without her. Chad’s first impression is along the lines of, “It’s a Ken Russell movie alright.” It starts with finding a skull in the field and just keeps getting weirder and weirder and more phallic and weirder and more phallic and... Bill is a big fan of Russell’s Altered States (1980) and loves this weird, 1980s slice of Ken Russell with its neat, little take on the legend of the Lampton Worm (D’Ampton Worm, get it?). In his view, the best thing about The Lair of the White Worm is Amanda Donahoe. Sammi Davis’s performance was an unexpected treat for Jeff and he loved the commonsense approach to fighting the “snake people.” Rather than a high priest reading an incantation from a volume of forgotten lore, the film’s heroes resort to snake-charming with a bagpipe, followed by releasing a mongoose and throwing a hand grenade, both having been hidden in Angus’s (Peter Capaldi) sporran.

If you’re in the mood for some Ken Russell bizarre hallucinations/dream sequences, gratuitous nudity, and what-the-f***ery, The Lair of the White Worm should be just the ticket. At the time of this writing, The Lair of the White Worm is available to stream on Amazon Prime and a variety of other free-with-ads or PPV services, as well as on physical media as a Blu-ray from Vestron Video and Lionsgate.

Every two weeks, Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1980s podcast will cover another horror film from the 1980s. The next episode’s film, chosen by Chad, will be Neon Maniacs (1986). Here on Decades of Horror 1980s, we do love films with “maniac” in the title. 

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[wittedknitch]

Blonde bastard doesn't know Scarborough Fair! I thought that was just something everyone knew I can sort of accept that he doesn't know the Lampton Worm, given that is a fairly (read: very) local legend But Scarborough Fair's the one everyone knows!

#blonde bastard

[gateway-podcasts]

Episode 25 of Myths and Legends is missing the background song of the Lampton Worm which played in my head all episode

#myths and legends

[shitcatremembers-blog]

Morris Trumpet

When I was younger, and I'm not exactly sure why, I joined a Morris side as a musician. With my trumpet. We used to go to weird folksy places and town centres with the dancers doing their thing, and me and accordion guy. I could crack out a mean 'Lampton worm', but still...trumpets don't exactly scream 'Morris'. For whatever reason though, they seemed to like it. I don't actually remember how I ended up leaving that group. It was probably one of my many moves that did it. So yeah, if you ever want a laugh, imagine the most flowers and bells Morris side prancing around to the very unfolksy sounds of a trumpet played by a curly-haired hobbit.

[steeltraptrainer]

TEAM TIME! I'm gonna shower y'all in pictures.

First! Purrlet!

He's my starter, and recently evolved into Meowscarada. He likes to run around. Here's how he looked as a Floragato.

Next, El Woowoo the Clodsire.

He's my lumpy Boi. I love him. I don't care if he's poisonous, I have pecha berries.

Sir Lampton the former Titan, my orthworm.

It's worming time.

Ratchet, surliest of Corviknights.

Shown here arguing with Lizard. Ratchet's really competitive and kinda made mincemeat of Katy and Brassius. I don't really do gyms except to get catching permits, but he made short work.

Scraplet the Tinkaton.

Pink menace. Somehow she and Ratchet get on, but I think that is solely because these two were raised together and I take her to the hardware store for metal.

And last but not least, Torque the Revavroom

Sometimes you just need to get an engine that yells at you if she wants to get washed. She likes to steal my sandwiches.

Have a team picture of nap time.

Also, Lizard. Lizard isn't a member of the fighting team. When I got 'em, they were afraid of fighting, and I only managed to teach them one move, Dragon Tail. She likes that she can just get out of fights with it.

#unreality #rotomblr #i felt the dire need to introduce everyone

[talloola13]

This beastie boys robot fighting at the base of penshaw monument with a Japanese stylee rendition of the lampton worm is really coming on now and soooooo much fun to make! Always a pleasure Stu! I CANT WAIT TO COLOUR THE LAZOR BEAMS N STUFF! Lol #jenjenstattoostudio #jenmaw #southshields #northeastengland #tyneandwear #fusionink #killerinktattoosupplies #cheyennetattooequipment #hustlebutterfoam #inkofcocotattooaftercare #femaletattooartist #ladytattooers #ladytattooartist #ladytattooer #japaneseimspiredtattoo #beastieboystattoo #funtattoo #moretocome #progress #guyswithtattoos #tattoo (at Hellbent Fitness) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdjGVVZoor0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#jenjenstattoostudio #jenmaw #southshields #northeastengland #tyneandwear #fusionink #killerinktattoosupplies #cheyennetattooequipment #hustlebutterfoam #inkofcocotattooaftercare #femaletattooartist #ladytattooers #ladytattooartist #ladytattooer #japaneseimspiredtattoo #beastieboystattoo #funtattoo #moretocome #progress #guyswithtattoos #tattoo