{"id":2216,"date":"2016-06-01T09:44:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.dur.ac.uk\/theatrum.mundi\/?page_id=479"},"modified":"2016-06-01T09:44:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:44:39","slug":"the-man-eating-dragon-of-durham","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/?page_id=2216","title":{"rendered":"The Man-Eating Dragon of Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A\"<\/a> These days Durham is a tranquil city, but back in the sixteenth century it was ‘invaded’ by\u00a0a fearsome and \u2018monstrous\u2019 man-eating dragon from Ethiopia, sixteen feet long. This was brought to Durham by an Italian showman to thrill local people. According to\u00a0the 1569 parish register of St Nicholas\u2019 Church<\/a>, the dragon:<\/p>\n

was taken & killed by speciall pollicie in \u00c6thiopia within the Turke\u2019s dominions. But before it was killed, It had\u00a0deuoured (as it is credibly thought) more than 1000 persons And also destroyed a whole Countrey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is just one of many dragon and worm stories<\/a> found in the archives of the North East – the most famous of course being the Lambton Worm.<\/p>\n

There will be a dragon inspired by this and other local worm stories prowling the streets<\/a> throughout Theatrum Mundi.<\/p>\n

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These days Durham is a tranquil city, but back in the sixteenth century it was ‘invaded’ by\u00a0a fearsome and \u2018monstrous\u2019 man-eating dragon from Ethiopia, sixteen feet long. This was brought to Durham by an Italian showman to thrill local people. According to\u00a0the 1569 parish register of St Nicholas\u2019 Church, the dragon: was taken & killed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":458,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2216","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P67HiV-zK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2216\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}