Culverin

Culverin, as depicted in a 1640 woodcut.

Culverin, AKA Tripodero or Snipe

Origin: Manly Wade Wellman's "The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)"

Description

Just ahead of Mr. Yandro, the Culverin hoved itself half into sight on its many legs. It pointed its needle-shaped mouth and spit a pebble. I heard the pebble ring on Mr. Yandro's head, and he staggered against a tree....

— Manly Wade Wellman's "The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)"

The Culverin is a strange, many-legged beast of the mountains which spits pebbles from a long, needle-shaped mouth, to stun its pray when it attacks.

Keeper Notes

• "Culverin" appears to be derived from a French word for a kind of serpent or dragon, later applied to a kind of early, long, slender handgun; the name implies that the culverin is a variation on a "fire-breathing" dragon or basilisk.

Associated Mythos Elements

• setting: Folk Mythos
• story: Manly Wade Wellman's "The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)"

References

• Fiction: Manly Wade Wellman's "The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)"