He heard their chattering, and then the sounds of hacking as they dismembered the snake right on the porch with wood axes.

She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

The woman seemed utterly unafraid of the snake which coiled on the floor in a torpor.

Felix Kopstein states that `` when the snake reaches its maturity it has already reached about its maximal length '', but goes on to cite the reticulate python as an exception, with maximum length approximately three times that at maturity.

The following information on snakes varying greatly in size ( but all with less than a 10-foot maximum ) shows, when considered with the foregoing, that there is probably no correlation between the length of a snake and the time required for it to mature.

In locations where both snake and salamander co-exist, the snakes have developed immunity through genetic changes and they feed on the amphibians with impunity.

The blackbelly salamander ( Desmognathus quadramaculatus ) can bite an attacking common garter snake ( Thamnophis sirtalis ) two or three times its size on the head and often manages to escape.

The western terrestrial garter snake ( Thamnophis elegans ) in California is largely aquatic and depends heavily on two species of frog that are diminishing in numbers, the Yosemite toad ( Bufo canorus ) and the mountain yellow-legged frog ( Rana muscosa ), putting the snake's future at risk.

If the snake were to become scarce, this would affect birds of prey and other predators that feed on it.

However, this name is used to refer to the brown vine snake, Ahaetulla pulverulenta, a slender, arboreal species that grows to five feet ( 152 cm ) at most and feeds only on small vertebrates.

There are four species of snake on the island and these are not dangerous to humans.

Many species prey on the cane toad in its native habitat, including the broad-snouted caiman ( Caiman latirostris ), the banded cat-eyed snake ( Leptodeira annulata ), the eel ( family: Anguillidae ), various species of killifish, the rock flagtail ( Kuhlia rupestris ), some species of catfish ( order: Siluriformes ).

This snake feeds on the larvae, eggs and pupae of ants and termites, and is about the size of a large earthworm.

When Dryope had the tortoise on her lap, he turned into a snake.

He was intrigued by the tattoos of the Dayaks and pictures of him in later life show large snake or dragon tattoos on his forearms, presumably obtained at this time.

The younger man is Mark Antony being lured by the wiles of the reclining woman ( who is Cleopatra, with the snake being an asp ) into losing his manly romanitas and becoming decadent, with the bearded elder male figure being his mythical ancestor Anton looking on.

Janken is believed to have been based on older ken games, san sukumi ken being one of them (, san sukumi means the freezing aspects of a snake, frog, and slug with fear ).

However, he is also known for lies and self-promotion, and criticized on these grounds — Martin Gardner's assessment continues " but also obviously a hustler ", Canadian puzzler Mel Stover called Loyd " an old reprobate ", and Matthew Costello calls him both " puzzledom's greatest celebrity ... popularizer, genius ," but also " huckster ... and fast-talking snake oil salesman.

Chinese labourers on railroad gangs involved in building the First Transcontinental Railroad first gave snake oil to Europeans with joint pain.

When rubbed on the skin at the painful site, snake oil was claimed to bring relief.

The word ousted adder, as adder went on to narrow in meaning, though in Old English næddre was the general word for snake.

Apart from these, Vishnu is depicted in any of his ten avataras, which include Vishnu sitting on Anantha ( the celestial snake and keeper of life energy ), Vishnu with Lakshmi seated on his lap ( Lakshminarayana ), with the head of a lion disemboweling a demon on his lap ( Lakshminarasimha ), with head of a boar walking over a demon ( Varaha ), in the Krishna avatar ( as Venugopala or the cow herder playing the Venu ( flute ), dancing on the head of the snake Kaliya, lifting a hill such as Govardhana ), with his feet over head of a small figure ( Vamana ), with Lakshmi seated on Garuda, and the eagle ( stealing the parijata tree ).

His image is a double-helix snake, or the Caduceus, very similar to the Rod of Asclepius used to symbolize medicine.

The caduceus is not to be confused with the Rod of Asclepius, the patron of medicine and son of Apollo, which bears only one snake.

Statue of Asclepius, the Greek God | Greek god of medicine, holding the symbolic Rod of Asclepius with its coiled snake | serpent

In Judaism, the Nehushtan was a pole with a snake made of copper wrapped around it, similar in appearance to the Rod of Asclepius.

The snake emblem is the Rod of Asclepius, widely used as the symbol of medical care worldwide.

Snakes entwined the staffs both of Hermes ( the caduceus ) and of Asclepius, where a single snake entwined the rough staff.

In honor of Asclepius, a particular type of non-venomous snake was often used in healing rituals, and these snakes — the Aesculapian Snakes — crawled around freely on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept.

In the 2nd century AD the controversial miracle-worker Alexander claimed that his god Glycon, a snake with a " head of linen " was an incarnation of Asclepius.

In honor of Asclepius, a particular type of non-venomous snake was often used in healing rituals, and these snakes — the Aesculapian Snakes — crawled around freely on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept.

* The traditional ( and still current ) method of extracting guinea worm by twisting the worm around a stick may have inspired the rod of Asclepius, a symbol of medicine since Ancient Greek times which portrays a snake winding around a staff.

The kīla, particularly those that are wooden are for shamanic healing, harmonizing and energy work and often have two nāgas ( Sanskrit for snake, serpent and / or dragon, also refers to a class of supernatural entities or deities ) entwined on the blade, reminiscent of the Staff of Asclepius and the Caduceus of Hermes.

The common name of this snake — " Aesculape " — refers to the classical god of healing ( Greek Asclepius and later Roman Aesculapius ), this snake was encouraged around temples dedicated to him.

every snake hide is noticeably longer than its carcass and intentional stretching presents no difficulty to the unscrupulous explorer.

The medical device pirate of today, of course, is a far more sophisticated operator than his predecessor of yesteryear -- the gallus-snapping hawker of snake oil and other patent medicines.

An anaconda is a large, nonvenomous snake found in tropical South America.

* The giant anaconda is a mythical snake of enormous proportions said to be found in South America.

The account, which explains how the snake crushes and devours tigers, is full of popular misconceptions, but was much read at the time, and so gave rise to the myth of the anaconda of Ceylon.

Antlia is bordered by Hydra the sea snake, Pyxis the compass, Vela the sails, and Centaurus the centaur.

Two is " snake eyes ," because the two ones that comprise it look like a pair of small, beady eyes.

Air is represented in the Aztec religion by a snake to the Scythians, a yoke to the Hindus and for Greeks as a sword and in Christian iconography as mankind.

The four species include the leopard snake ( locally known as Ochendra ), the Balkan whip snake ( locally called Dendrogallia ), the dice snake ( called Nerofido in Greek ), and the only venomous snake is the nocturnal cat snake which has evolved to deliver its venom in to geckos and small lizards and is not dangerous to humans.

In the Italian Ambrosio companies film La mala planta ( The Evil Plant ), directed by Mario Caserini, which involves a case of poisoning, there is an Insert shot of a snake slithering over the ‘ Evil Plant ’.

He is not descriptive, so animals including an elephant, monkeys, a seal, a snake, a kangaroo & joey, and turtles are brought to Jon ’ s house for the reward.