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[[File:Culverin.png|200px|thumb|right|Culverin, as depicted in a 1640 woodcut.]] | |||
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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. | |||
Latest revision as of 16:29, 20 February 2020
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....
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)"