Mongolian death worm Mongolian Death Worm
Ringkasan
Cacing maut Mongolia (olgoi-khorkhoi) adalah kriptid berbentuk cacing merah yang konon hidup di Gurun Gobi dan sangat beracun.
The Mongolian death worm (olgoi-khorkhoi) is a red, worm-like cryptid said to live in the Gobi Desert and to be deadly poisonous.
Kisah dan tradisi
Cacing maut Mongolia, yang oleh warga disebut olgoi-khorkhoi atau "cacing usus" karena mirip usus sapi, adalah makhluk yang konon hidup di Gurun Gobi. Pada 1922 perdana menteri Mongolia Damdinbazar menggambarkannya seperti sosis sepanjang dua kaki tanpa kepala dan kaki, begitu beracun sehingga menyentuhnya berarti mati. Sumber lain menyebutnya gemuk, merah cerah, sepanjang 0,6 hingga 1,5 meter, dan mampu menyemburkan asam serta sengatan listrik. Kisahnya dikenal di Barat lewat buku Roy Chapman Andrews tahun 1926, meski Andrews sendiri tidak percaya makhluk itu ada. Pada 1983 warga yang mengaku pernah melihat olgoi-khorkhoi membenarkan bahwa seekor ular boa pasir Tartar adalah hewan yang mereka maksud.
The Mongolian death worm, which locals call olgoi-khorkhoi or "intestine worm" for its likeness to a cow's gut, is a creature said to live in the Gobi Desert. In 1922 Mongolian prime minister Damdinbazar described it as a two-foot sausage with no head or legs, so poisonous that touching it means death. Another source calls it fat, bright red and 0.6 to 1.5 metres long, able to spray acid and give electric shocks. Its story reached the West through Roy Chapman Andrews's 1926 book, though Andrews himself did not believe in it. In 1983 locals who claimed to have seen the olgoi-khorkhoi confirmed that a Tartar sand boa was the animal they meant.
Fakta utama
- Budaya / Culture
- Tradisi Mongolia
- Kawasan / Region
- Asia Timur
- Negara / Country
- Mongolia
- Klasifikasi / Classification
- Cryptid
- Habitat
- Desert
- Kemampuan / Abilities
- Racun mematikan, Semburan asam dan listrik
Nama lain / Alternate names
olgoi-khorkhoi
Tahukah kamu? / Did you know?
Warga yang mengaku melihat olgoi-khorkhoi mengenalinya sebagai ular boa pasir Tartar.
Locals who claimed to have seen the olgoi-khorkhoi identified it as a Tartar sand boa.