The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh

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The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh is a Northumbrian ballad about a princess who is changed into a dragon. In the Kingdom of Northumbria, a kind king in Bamburgh Castle takes a beautiful but cruel witch as his queen after his wife’s death. The King’s son, Childe Wynd, has gone across the sea and the witch, jealous of the beauty of the king’s daughter, Princess Margaret, and quick to take advantage of Wynd’s absence, turns her into a dragon.