The Iron Bull
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Described in folktales from the eastern Core, the Iron Bull is a gorgon to horribly punish those who pollute the land. Beyond the usual gorgon poison breath turning flesh to stone, the Bull's breath is also said to transform wheat and wood to chalk.
Description
They still tell stories here of the Iron Bull, who appears from the deep plains when the land is befouled by blood or filth or fire to wreak a horrible vengeance on those who pollute the land. They say that he is stronger than the strongest horse, and that a sword or a spear employed against him will turn again and strike its owner down; they say also that his breath turns wheat or wood to chalk and flesh to stone. I was shown what might, with some imagination, be thought a human figure carved in stone and told in all seriousness that it had once been a particularly wicked quarryman, who fouled the river with tailings from his pit; the Iron Bull came and turned him into one of his own stones, and the quarry he worked lies overgrown and unused to this day.
-Folk-tales of the Eastern Core, Magnus Wolfsbane[1]
References
- ↑ Descriptive text from John W. Mangrum's Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror project (contributed by Nathan Okerlund), from posts on the Fraternity of Shadows message board.
