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'''Culverin'''

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

==Description==

<blockquote>
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....

<br>— [[Manly Wade Wellman]]'s "[[The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)]]"
</blockquote>

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==



==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)]]"

[[Category:Races]]
[[Category:FolkMythos]]

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		+	* "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.

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	'''Culverin''', AKA '''Tripodero''' or '''Snipe'''		'''Culverin''', AKA '''Tripodero''' or '''Snipe'''

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