The Monstrefact: The Lindworm
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the legend of the lindworm and the 19th century Swedish ethnologist who searched for it …
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| 0:00.0 | Daniel Miller is a millennial con artist. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm a social media influencer. |
| 0:05.0 | Busted while recovering from Brazilian butt lift surgery. |
| 0:08.0 | She was yelling at the police for like getting her butt tissue out of joy when they were |
| 0:12.0 | paying nothing. |
| 0:13.0 | She's got hundreds of victims. |
| 0:15.0 | To me, that's not a con artist that just is a straight-up predator, and she just keeps |
| 0:20.0 | getting away with it. |
| 0:21.0 | This person is a danger. |
| 0:22.0 | Listen to Queen of the Con, Season 3 on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is The Monster Effect, a short-form series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind focusing |
| 0:46.0 | on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time. |
| 0:53.0 | Dragons and worms wind their way through human history, keeping largely to the shadows of myth and legend, |
| 1:01.0 | terrifying in their strength, mystery, and symbolic resonance. |
| 1:06.0 | In the traditions of Sweden and Northern Scandinavia, we find tales of just such a beast, the lendworm. |
| 1:14.0 | In older accounts, the lendworm takes on a hybrid form. |
| 1:18.0 | It has the body of a great serpent, and a head like that of a horse, complete with a mane running down part of its neck. |
| 1:27.0 | It occupies loathsome regions of the wilderness, guards buried treasure, spits venom, and in some cases, |
| 1:34.0 | may bite its own tail and roll like a hoop, or ascend into the sky, shedding sparks and fire. |
| 1:41.0 | Folklores Carol Rose also adds that in the later stages of its life, the lendworm may mutate and take to the sea as a sea serpent. |
| 1:51.0 | Now the hoop snake account, we can neatly tuck away as part of the larger tradition of the oraboris, the snake that bites or consumes its own tail. |
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