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The current usage of worm as a type of malicious Internet software is derived from John Brunner's 1975 science fiction novel The Shockwave Rider. [2] More positive interpretations, based on the concept of the friendly ' bookworm ' or mutated forms of the common earthworm, are found in many recent books, especially those written for children.
Mongolian Death Worm is a 2010 television film that aired on May 8, 2010, on the Syfy channel. Monster of the Week includes an example adventure in which three Mongolian Death Worms hatch from a crate of museum samples, and will begin multiplying rapidly if not caught by the hunters.
Death Worm, the protagonist from the smartphone game of the same name. Split Worm, an enormous worm that appears in Silent Hill 3. Greedy Worm, a creature from Silent Hill 4: The Room & The Arcade. Greedy Worm, an enemy in Crash Twinsanity. Graboid, from the computer game Dirt Dragons. Xol, Will of the Thousands, a worm god in Destiny 2.
Wyrm was the Old English term for carnivorous reptiles ("serpents") and mythical dragons. "Worm" has also been used as a pejorative epithet to describe a cowardly, weak or pitiable person. Worms can also be farmed for the production of nutrient-rich vermicompost .
A depiction of Sigurð slaying Fáfnir on the right portal plank from Hylestad Stave Church, the so-called "Hylestad I", from the second half of the 12th century [1]. In Germanic heroic legend and folklore, Fáfnir is a worm or dragon slain by a member of the Völsung family, typically Sigurð.
Some examples, such as the 16th-century lindworm statue at Lindwurm Fountain in Klagenfurt, Austria, have four limbs and two wings. Most limbed depictions imply that lindworms do not walk on two limbs like a wyvern but move like a mole lizard : they slither like a snake and use their arms for traction.
In "The Shambler from the Stars", De Vermis Mysteriis is described as the work of Ludvig Prinn, an "alchemist, necromancer, [and] reputed mage" who "boasted of having attained a miraculous age" before being burned at the stake in Brussels during the height of the witch trials (in the late 15th or early 16th centuries).
Like the Chinese dragon, Norse dragons of this era feature barbels. Worm , wurm or wyrm ( Old English : wyrm , Old Norse : ormʀ , ormr , Old High German : wurm ), meaning serpent , are archaic terms for dragons ( Old English : draca , Old Norse : dreki , Old High German : trahho ) in the wider Germanic mythology and folklore , in which they ...