Champ, the sea serpent of Lake Champlain!
"American Hustle" ★☆☆☆☆ What dark Serpent of Hell did contrive such a Satanical tale?
His only prose work, The Serpent of Division (1422), an account of Julius Caesar, is brief.
Seldom seen at the surface, it is credited as the "sea serpent" of some reported sightings.
Overall, like Shakespeare's serpent of old Nile herself, flawed but fascinating.
The dredge had a giant crane riveted to its deck and a dipper bucket that looked like the tiny cranium of a serpent, poised high above the palm trees and the mangroves.
Elias alludes to this experience in many of his writings, especially his book "Serpents of Paradise".
But objects such as a blue curling serpent with two heads, its body covered in tiny tiles of precious turquoise stone, survive from that Conquistador treasure.
According to local legend, the star sand was made of the tiny offspring skeletons of the Southern Cross and the North Star, who were killed by a giant serpent right after being born in the ocean.
Fingers became prisms and serpents; minuscule faces peered between toes; and the tiny bodies of mice or marmosets gripped ankles or lay around wrists like Celtic dragons.
