...the Greek ''basileus'', which means king. The basilisk was the king of the snakes and the most poisonous creature on earth.
...hiss, and does not move its body forward in manifold coils like the other snakes but advances with its middle raised high. It kills bushes not only by its t
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Snakes are sacred animals in many West African religions. The demi-god Aidophedo u
...u and Bastian as a pendant throughout their travels. The Auryn depicts two snakes, one silver, the other gold, intertwined and biting each other's tails.
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...ixed collection of deities, including spirits of trees, rivers, ancestors, snakes, and the ghosts of people who have met a violent or tragic death. They like
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...ake, it could be an unknown type of large snake, though there are no known snakes with a serrated ridge. The people who have seen it say it is not just an ov
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.... Several evil dreams are mentioned in ancient Japanese books, such as two snakes twined together, a fox with the voice of a man, blood-stained garments, a t
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...zards. These are a primitive group of poorly studied animals. They are not snakes or lizards but are related to both. I think the Death Worm is a giant membe
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...s and is called the "scarlet bird." A common depiction was of it attacking snakes with its talons and its wings spread.
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...d eats them then and there. She is able to animate her hair (or turn it to snakes in some legends) and use it to pull the prey into the maw atop her head. Sh
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...creature, identified as both "alligator" and "crocodile". The "Dragons and Snakes" section of the (1578 CE) ''Bencao Gangmu'', which is a comprehensive Chine
* Read, Bernard E. 1934. "Chinese Materia Medica VII; Dragons and Snakes," Peking Natural History Bulletin 8.4:279-362.
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...+Bernard&ei=pfu5SIKYK4HaygTjtPWPBw Chinese Materia Medica VII; Dragons and Snakes"] ''Peking Natural History Bulletin'' 8.4:279-362.
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...tly unperturbed by the cold, as Isidore of Seville indicates: "Alone among snakes, the amphisbaena goes out in the cold."
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...the other gods and made them pay taxes to the demons. Next he defeated the snakes (nagas), the gandharvas, the rakshasas, the yakshas (companions of Kubera)
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...met several people in Småland, Sweden that said they had encountered giant snakes, sometimes equipped with a long mane. He gathered around 50 eyewitness repo
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*Echidne of the Snakes [http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com] is a fairly popular liberalism|lib
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*''Hebi'', ([[snakes]])
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...e townsfolk bring the monster to life the form of a long procession, which snakes through the town led by a swarm of children carrying Chinese-type lanterns.
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He also had a dragon's tail and a thick mane of writhing snakes.
...er of the Stygian sound, Grim Cerberus, who soon began to rear His crested Snakes, and armed His bristling hair. '
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...g from its eyes when it blinks, and individual lightning bolts are glowing snakes that it carries with it.
...s apparently known for garter snakes, though some sources say, small water snakes. Others say that from the surrounding mountains, the small brook wound arou
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...eads or creatures with the upper bodies of humans and lower bodies of vast snakes, they were extremely gifted shape-shifters, able to assume any appearance t
...of regeneration as the spilled nectar soaked their scales, explaining why snakes shed their skins to this day. But their efforts to lap up and consume this
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