This week, on the Myths and Legends podcast, it's the story of the Lamped and Worm.

It's an English folktale where you'll see that if you don't want to go to Mass,

just stay at home. Don't just stand in the river,

cussing for all the children in the village to hear.

Then, on the creature of the week, I'll try to make a catchphrase happen.

You'll see the necessity of setting up a black market for stolen butter.

This is the Myths and Legends podcast, episode 25.

This is where you get to make it right.

This is a podcast where I tell stories from folklore that have shaped our world.

Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know,

but with surprising origins. Other stories you probably haven't heard, but really should.

This week, it's the Legend of the Lamped and Worm, a famous local legend

of a dragon from northeast England. It's a listener's suggestion,

so thank you to Ruby Mavolio, that's his name on Twitter, for letting me know about this

fantastic little story. It's right in the middle of the Middle Ages, possibly around 1200 AD.

We've been talked about a lot of stories from this period. I don't know if I've really

talked about what the Middle Ages are, but they are super broadly. The time for the fall of

Rome in about 476 AD to the Renaissance, or early modern period. The Middle Ages are divided

into three different stages. The early Middle Ages, the high Middle Ages, and the late Middle Ages.

The early Middle Ages are considered the Dark Age, and generally a bad time for everyone.

What with people seen as barbarians attacking cities, Viking slaughtering monks, and well everyone,

and comparatively very, very few educated people, or historians, to keep track of the craziness.

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