Strange Snake Stories, Myths and Nonsense

[-MARWOLAETH-]

Having no legs isn't a curse to snakes it was a huge evolutionary advantage to their subterranean ancestors who where so successful that they diversified into into the snakes of today.Theirs some weird stuff in the bible.

[kibakiba]

I had one medical taxi driver who asked me if I had pets and I told her I had 12 snakes(at least I did, at the time) and she stepped on the gas and then on the breaks... She told me I was going to end up with my house, or myself, being possessed. In my opinion, she was the one who was possessed. She could have gotten us in a crash doing that.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

She told me I was going to end up with my house, or myself, being possessed. In my opinion, she was the one who was possessed.

Yeh possessed by the ghosts of all the pinkies and worms your snakes have eaten

[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.

[Selkielass]

I have had people tell me that snakes 'sting' with their forked tongues, or sometimes with their tails. That's why they are whip snakes- they will whip you with their stinging tails.
Blue racers run faster than, and will chase people.

Once, a snake (or toad) got bricked into the cornerstone of an important building, and many decades later, when the building was torn down, the snake was found, still alive, among the artifacts placed in the cornerstone.

I love myths and urban legends!

[jaleely]

i have heard all of these before! except the tomato lol
I did wonder if they could eat tomato worms, though. i've definitely been seeing them eat slugs, that's for sure!

my dad told me snakes were evil, this week. He thinks they are mean and like to bite. He also says that god cursed them to crawl and eat dirt. I pointed out...didn't they crawl before? or if he took their legs, that would just make it a lizard..but there are still lizards...so...

[-MARWOLAETH-]

Theirs a tribe in southern Africa that believes that the twig snake(Thelotornis capensis) can impale you like a spear.Lol

[EasternGirl]

My Mexican sister-in-law told me that her mother, who lives in Mexico, always knows when someone is going to get sick because there will be a snake outside of the person's house hanging around. If they see a snake near the house...someone is going to get very ill. Man, with twelve of them in my house...if that were true, I'd be dead by now.

[Stefan-A]

My Mexican sister-in-law told me that her mother, who lives in Mexico, always knows when someone is going to get sick because there will be a snake outside of the person's house hanging around. If they see a snake near the house...someone is going to get very ill. Man, with twelve of them in my house...if that were true, I'd be dead by now.

There could be some vague truth to it. Snakes are attracted by rats and rats spread diseases.

[GarField000]

I would be dead by now then.
I have 23 thamnophis, 12 corns, 14 baby corns, and still about 70 baby thamnophis ........ hmmm.

Still feeling very good