{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/prwe/prwe353.htm","path":"neu/eng/prwe/prwe353.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe353.htm","text":"PENGERSWICK\nANOTHER legend relates that it was not the stepmother found by Pengerswick whose \"skin was covered with scales like a serpent,\" but that the lady brought 'home from Palestine by him was an Ophidian--a serpent-worshipper. Hence she became celebrated as a woman possessed by a serpent--having a serpent's power--in fact, a Lamia. This is the only tradition of the kind with which I am acquainted in this county.","title":"Popular Romances of the West of England: Appendix: Pengerswick","type":"page"}