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Olgoi-Khorkhoi

Added Mon, 11/05/2020
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A mythological headless fat worm that lives in deserted deserts Mongolia and killing cattle and people at a distance, presumably by poison or electricity discharge. From Mongolian, its name literally translates as "a worm like a cow's colon". In English-language literature and cinema, it is known as the Mongolian death worm.

It is believed that the worm inhabits the western or southern Gobi. In the 1987 book Altain Tsaadah Govd, Ivan Mckerl described it as moving underground, creating waves of sand on the surface that allow it to be detected.

The worm becomes active in June and July. Most often it comes to the surface when it rains and the ground is wet.

In Mongolia, it is believed that touching any part of the worm will cause almost instant death and severe pain. It is said that the worm often hunts camels and lays eggs in their intestines, and eventually acquires its reddish skin.

Its poison allegedly corrodes metal, and local folklore tells of a predilection for yellow. The worm is also said to prefer native parasitic plants such as goyo.

In 1922, a Central Asian scientific expedition, funded by The American Museum of Natural History. It was headed by an American paleontologist professor Roy Chapman Andrews. In 1926, he published a book entitled "On the Trail of Ancient Man" (English: On the Trail of Ancient Man), which contained the first message about Olgoi-khorkhoi. Under the impression of Andrews' books, the Soviet paleontologist and science fiction writer Ivan Antonovich Efremov wrote a story about a deadly worm, first published under the title "Allergorkhoy-Horkhoy" in the author's collection "5 points" in 1944.

After the publication of articles by the Czech automotive engineer and crypto-zoologist-enthusiast Ivan Matskerle in the early 1990s, olgoi-horkhoi became a popular object of cryptozoology.

Zoologist Yuri Konstantinovich Gorelov in 1983 established that the prototype of the Allgoi horchoi is the eastern boa constrictor (Latin Eryx tataricus).

The well-known researcher of the MPR A.D. Simukov wrote:

"Olgoi khorkhoi in Tsag soochin gobi is quite ordinary. They talk about him a lot and are very afraid. If he appears in the yurt, they are skochivat. On the surface, it appears most often after rains, when the ground is damp. In yurts, olgoi khorkhoi appears mostly under buckets, where it is damp. They persist in talking about its venom. The color is defined as “white brocade". In addition to olgoi khorkhoi, residents of Tsag Soochin Gobi spoke about "temen sul khorkhoi", defining it as a tailless lizard" (Simukov, 2008, p. 280). Considering that "temeen sUUl" is the Mongolian name for the eastern boa constrictor (Eryx tataricus), it can be assumed that the olgoi–horkhoi in this case is either some other animal or a young boa constrictor.

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