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May 17, 2022 · Serpent myths. Essex has had a long history of water-serpent myths. The number of these stories may be because it boasts the longest coastline in England (350 miles), indented...
May 18, 2022 · Essex has had a long history of water-serpent myths. The number of these stories may be because it boasts the longest coastline in England (350 miles), indented with hundreds of water inlets and estuaries.
Jul 19, 2016 · And beneath it all is something far more insidious and inexplicable: persistent rumours and sightings of a winged serpent out in the moiling salt waters and sparse marshes of the Blackwater Estuary. The characters reflect these disparate strands.
May 12, 2022 · Sunrise over the Blackwater estuary at Maldon, Essex. © Timothy Smith / Alamy Stock Photo. It’s also about how they relate to reports of a mysterious riverine monster, the ‘Serpent’ of the title. Is it a myth? A real monster or a living fossil? Where is ‘The Essex Serpent’ set? ‘The Essex Serpent’ is set in north east Essex.
May 17, 2022 · The Flying Serpent isn’t the only mythological creature prowling the Essex countryside. According to author Liz Trenow, there’s an earlier myth of a dragon terrorising the villagers of Bures ...
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The Essex Serpent follows the journey of amateur naturalist Cora Seaborne, played with fierce intelligence by Claire Danes. She feels caged in her upper-class London home where she is kept like a prized bird by her much older and abusive husband.
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While on holiday in Colchester with her son, Francis, and her companion, Martha, Cora is intrigued by a ruin caused by an earthquake which was rumoured to have awakened the Essex Serpent, a mythical sea dragon. Cora believes that the beast could be an undiscovered kind of dinosaur that survived extinction.
