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No will-o'-the-wisp mislight thee, No snake or slowworm bite thee, But on, on thy way, Not making a stay, Since ghost there's none to affright thee.

A snake or an adder would have begun to move away the moment any one stopped to look at it; but the slowworm takes no notice, and hence it is often said to be blind.

From all parts of Europe long and sinister black files are crawling hitherward in serpentine lines, like slowworms through grass.

The boys at the village school say that slowworms are poisonous; is not that silly?

A silvery creature like a slowworm came crawling out from among them, slowly crossed the clay floor, and crept into the fire.