Wormwood

Wormwood may refer to:

Plants

Places

  • Wormwood Scrubs, an open space in the Hammersmith area of West London
  • Wormwood Street, in the City of London
  • Wormwood Forest, former name of the Red Forest in Ukraine, surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant within the Exclusion Zone

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

  • Wormwood, a character in C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters
  • Matilda Wormwood, the title character of the children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl
  • Miss Wormwood, a minor character in Calvin and Hobbes
  • Mrs Wormwood, a character in the first episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Invasion of the Bane, who reappeared in Enemy of the Bane
  • Wormwood, a playable character in Don't Starve's Hamlet DLC
  • Wormwood Deathship, described in the Abarat books by Clive Barker

Film and television

Literature

Periodicals

Music

Other uses

  • Wormwood (Bible), also called Apsinthos in the Book of Revelation, a star that falls upon Earth and poisons a third part of the waters
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See also

  • Wyrmwood, a 2014 horror film by Kiah Roache-Turner
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