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And above the treetops sailed a round, flat thing, like a big plate being pitched high. A Skim. Then another Skim. And the blood inside my body was cold and solid as ice, and my voice turned to a handful of sand in my throat. | And above the treetops sailed a round, flat thing, like a big plate being pitched high. A Skim. Then another Skim. And the blood inside my body was cold and solid as ice, and my voice turned to a handful of sand in my throat. | ||
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| − | A Skim is a strange, saucer-shaped, flying creature of the Appalachian backwoods. | + | A Skim is a strange, saucer-shaped, flying creature of the Appalachian backwoods, capable of gliding very quietly through the skies, and capturing land animals and people for food with dangling tentacles. |
Latest revision as of 05:51, 11 February 2020
Skim
Origin: Manly Wade Wellman's "The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)"
Description
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And above the treetops sailed a round, flat thing, like a big plate being pitched high. A Skim. Then another Skim. And the blood inside my body was cold and solid as ice, and my voice turned to a handful of sand in my throat.
A Skim is a strange, saucer-shaped, flying creature of the Appalachian backwoods, capable of gliding very quietly through the skies, and capturing land animals and people for food with dangling tentacles.
Keeper Notes
- City folks who don't know any better have been known to mistake encounters with the Skim with "flying saucer" space-ships full of aliens, not realizing there is a far more sinister and malevolent explanation for the weird, saucer-shaped objects in the sky, the periods of lost time, and the horrific nightmares afterward.... (fan theory)
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)"
- cryptozoology: "Giant Space Clams"
