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Re: [at-l] snake phobia/tarps
My dad used to tell me about that last one, where the snake won't die until
after sunset when you chop his head off. I watched one once and it sure
seemed to die fairly rapidly. Anyway, I never kill snakes and don't like it
when people do. Lots of the farmers around here kill them.
Yesterday someone said they saw a copperhead about 2 miles from here, but I
have not seen anything but black, garter, and probably rat snakes here.
Another saying, from my mom: The racers will bite their tail and make a
circle or wheel and roll after you.
Highlander
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> From: hopefl@juno.com
> To: db_30360@yahoo.com
> Cc: at-l-digest@saffron.hack.net
> Subject: Re: [at-l] snake phobia/tarps
> Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 4:06 PM
>
> Over the years, I have heard some very funny but totally untrue comments
> about snakes. Here are a few that I remember right off.
>
> The skin of a snake is more poisonous than its bite. Just touching a
> snake can kill a grown man.
>
> Snakes always are found in pairs. If one snake is killed the other will
> track down the killer and "avenge" the death.
>
> If a car runs over a snake, it will jump up and wrap around the axle. As
> soon as the driver steps out of the car the snake will attack.
>
> A Coachwhip ( a name loosely applied to the black snake as well as others
> ) will bite a person and then proceed to beat the poor dude with its
> tail.
>
> Looking into the eyes of a snake will hypnotize a person.
>
> If a snake's head is cut off, its body will continue to wiggle until the
> sun sets.
>
> I don't know why snakes seem to be the most hated of all creatures. Maybe
> it has to do with their secretive lives. Snakes are not the smartest of
> varmints. In order to hunt successfully, as well as not get eaten their
> own selves, they must remain undetected. I believe this is why they tend
> to remain very still in the presence of people. They are trying to be
> invisible. BTW, snakes are on the regular menu of a bunch of other
> critters. Once as a kid, I was frog gigging and I found a 15 inch water
> moccasin inside a big old toad!
>
> It is a little disturbing to me that folks who are genuinely concerned
> about the environment, who contribute money to buy up land to be
> conserved, who want to see the wolf or bear of mountain lion have a place
> in nature, will kill a poor old snake just because it is in the trail. I
> bet that if we'd examine our fears a little bit, we'd react differently.
> Hopeful
>
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