Strange Snake Stories, Myths and Nonsense

[guidofatherof5]

I was in a store buying tipalia for my snakes when the young man waiting on me asked if if was for my snakes( I buy a lot there) I told him yes. He asked how he can get the garter snakes to stop biting the tomatoes in his garden. He said they are biting the tomatoes and drinking the juice. Never heard that one before.

There's got to to many other stories out there.

[infernalis]

I have never heard that one from anyone either.

All I have is your typical "farmers tales" that spotted adders are "poisonous"

There is no such animal, they are talking about eastern milk snakes, and they are harmless.

[ProXimuS]

That tomato one is weird.....

There's always the "snakes are slimey" myth.

[Mommy2many]

Stop blaming the snakes....

[Invisible Snake]

I've heard that snakes are evil (from religious ppl).

[setfree]

I've heard that snakes are evil (from religious ppl).

The story behind that is that lucifer (Satan) was in the form of a serpent when he tempted eve to eat the fruit of the tree of "the knowledge of good and evil". So God cursed the serpent to slither on its belly "eating" the dust of the ground. That is why they have no legs.

That's from the Bible.


P.S. they are not evil.... THEY ARE AWSOME!

[Stefan-A]

The story behind that is that lucifer (Satan) was in the form of a serpent

According to christian tradition. It's not actually in the bible.

In the bible, the serpent is also described as "more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made". As far as I'm concerned, that's rating snakes pretty high.

So God cursed the serpent to slither on its belly "eating" the dust of the ground. That is why they have no legs.

He also decreed that there should be enmity between snakes and humans. And the part about eating dust doesn't have any quotation marks in Genesis 3:14.

[kerensa]

How about the old Vermont tale that they will bite their tail form a hoop and roll away? does that count?

[guidofatherof5]

Yes it does. Thanks

[kerensa]

another old Vermont story is that snakes shed their skin when changing into something else. No one was ever able to tell me what however. you hear lots of interesting things listening to ancient old time Vermonters...

another one is that water moccasins hunt swimmers.

another is snakes in the barn will keep away illness.

another is that snakes suck eggs and that is why some birds kill them.

That is all the strange old sayings/stories about them I remember right now.