The Jabberwocky is a creature from the wonderful but wacky mind of Lewis Carroll, the author of the well-known "Alice In Wonderland" and it's sequel "Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There."

The Jabberwocky, itself, may or may not be based on the local Sunderland area legend of the Lambton Worm, seeing as Lewis Carroll was writing the peom, Jabberwocky, which is one of the world's most well known nonsense poem and indeed where the fictional Jabberwocky originates from, while he was visiting some relatives that lived near Sunderland. (<--- This however is not true for the first stanza, which was written years before.)


Shifting to the actual physical appearance of the Jabberwocky, different artist illustrate it differently. For example, John Tennniel's version of it (as seen on the left) depicts the Jabberwocky as a huge and monstrous beast with bat-like wings. Others, however, choose a different illustration of this amazing best, preferring the Jabberwocky remain more dragon like in appearance.


I would like to point to you that no matter which way you like to view the Jabberwocky, it's seems that Lewis Carroll intended for the Jabberwocky to have a fierce bite (seeing as the father tells the son "the jaw that bites"), giant or otherwise deadly claws (likewise the father says "claws that catch), and "burning eyes" ("eyes of flame").


The Jabberwocky (like the Alice Stories) has unleashed both appearances and parodies in pop culture and holds some of the qualities of legend or myth. For example, the band Fear Before has even named a song and album after Carroll's creature.

Sadly, despite it's popularity and it's appearance in one episode of the Muppet Show, the tale of the Jabberwocky ends sadly (at for the beast), seeing as it was -in the end- slayed and beheaded.


`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.