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mongolian death worms plus shai'hulud
mongolian death worms are actually real, for the record, but like okarun says they usually only grow to be a few feet long. also they're a type of snake rather than a worm, a tartar sand boa. the translation got stuck because the word the anglos were translating as "worm" is a catch-all taboo name for 'vile creatures' you traditionally shouldn't talk about in the gobi folk culture