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# LXXXV. the Lambton Worm

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LXXXV. the Lambton Worm of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 14 sentences and 166 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/2/) — \_--Henderson's \_Folk-Lore of Northern Counties\_, pp.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/3/) — 287-9, I have rewritten, as the original was rather high falutin'.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/4/) — \_Parallels.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/5/) — \_--Worms or dragons form the subject of the whole of the eighth chapter of Henderson. "
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/6/) — The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" (No. xxxiii.) also requires the milk of nine kye for its daily rations, and cow's milk is the ordinary provender of such kittle cattle (Grimms' \_Teut.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/7/) — Myth.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/8/) — \_ 687), the mythological explanation being that cows = the clouds and the dragon = the storm.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/9/) — Jephtha vows are also frequent in folk-tales: Miss Cox gives many examples in her \_Cinderella\_, p. 511.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/10/) — \_Remarks.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/11/) — \_--Nine generations back from the last of the Lambtons, Henry Lambton, M.P., ob.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/12/) — 1761, reaches Sir John Lambton, Knight of Rhodes, and several instances of violent death occur in the interim.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/13/) — Dragons are possibly survivals into historic times of antedeluvian monsters, or reminiscences of classical legend (Perseus, etc.).
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/78/14/) — Who shall say which is which, as Mr. Lang would observe.

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