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Welcome to stuff to blow your mind, a production of heart radio hi. My name is Robert, and this is the monster effect.
Short form series from stuff to blow your mind, focusing on mythical creatures, ideas and monsters in time
dragons and worms wine their way through human history.
keeping a largely to the shadows of myth and legend.
A fine in their strength, mystery
symbolic residence,
In the traditions of Sweden. In Northern Scandinavia, we fall
tales of just such a beast: the Lindorm
in older accounts. The Lynne takes on a hybrid for it as the body of a great serpent and ahead like that of a horse,
complete with a main running down part of its neck. It
the pies removed. Some regions of the wilderness guards bear
the treasure, spits venom and, in some cases, may bite its own tail and roll like a hoop.
Or ascended into the sky, shedding sparks and fire fox
was Carol rose, also, add that in the late
stages of its life. The lindorm may mutate and take
to the sea as a sea serpent mother,
snake account. We can neatly tucked away as part of the larger tradition of the aura Boris snake that bites or consumes its own tail for the most part. This
not occur in the natural world, but it is proven to be an intriguing image and human cultures for ages. Likewise
in file away the limbed worms, brilliant aerial maneuvers, as part of a broader tradition of unidentified aerial phenomenon transformed into legend and the treasure wireless,
did out by Thomas mom in twenty twenties. A footnote to Scandinavian. Her pathology
the bronze age, salt tales from Asia and Africa traffic into Europe, including a
of large constrictor, snakes and spitting cobras.
There also arrive beliefs from the near east. Did it
human being buried valuables in secret, they agreed would transform them after death and they would come back
from the grave is a large snake to guard the buried treasure
It stands to reason that the land worm is simply
the convergence of all these elements, along with swedish knowledge of native snake species, such as the grass snake
at the Lindorm seemed resistant to keep to the shadows of method legend because among rural swedes there remained sightings of the beast and even accounts of fighting and slaying such monsters, and these continue throughout the enlightenment and into the nineteenth century.
As mom details in his article published in the international society for the history and bibliography of her pathology
One man was encouraged by these accounts to drag the lindorm out of the shadows and into the world of scientific verification. Ethanol,
Gunnar Olaf killed him.
The colorless, who lived eighteen eighteen through one thousand eighty nine to be
clear, it would be more than half a century before the Term Crypto Zoology was introduced,
Hilton Catholicism. Curiosity certainly match the spirit of earlier inquiries and he was quick to insist that he,
self was no zoologist, but he was fast,
aided by swedish accounts of the Lindorm and was increasingly convinced that their money
be some underlying reality to it, not mere
lower or oversize descriptions of authors and grass snakes, but in
actual large fear serpent with
thing resembling a horses main he dismissed
the flying, hooping and treasure guarding, but he believed
yet undocumented organism awaited scientific discovery, and so
ten kilometers.
Did a memorandum to the royal.
we Dish Academy of Sciences and Self printed. His report compiling numerous accounts and his insistence that the existence of the lindorm be explored. He offered
a reward for proof of the creatures existence.
During the common folk that it,
specimen could be pickled in shops within a waterproof vessel.
the swedish scientific community, largely found his efforts amusing at best at times
I'm putting the notion of rural swedes rampaging through the forest in search of monsters, ready to dunked them in liquor and collect their award. Alas,
the Lynne could not be coaxed out of the safety of folklore and no proof was ever recovered of this law
large, fearsome serpent with something like a horse. Dismay hill
Cavaliers went to his grave without ever seen proof of the land worms existence and, as has been pointed out
This alone has some scientific value, but is more
details here
You get his serpent in the end as his grave stone and Scott Love features the emblem of a serpent biting its own tail.
Special thanks to my son Sebastian on this episode. I was at a loss.
As to what to cover this week and he instantly piped up at the breakfast table and suggested the lindorm which he lay
about on the Netflix animated Series? Hilda
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