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30 unusual facts about Snake


Accademia del Cimento

In another experiment concerning the efficacy of SnakeStones Kircher used letters from other Jesuits in the field which said snakestones could counteract poison.

Asmodeus

In the Dictionnaire Infernal by Collin de Plancy, Asmodeus is depicted with the breast of a man, a cock leg, serpent tail, three heads (one of a man spitting fire, one of a sheep, and one of a bull), riding a lion with dragon wings and neck, all of these animals being associated with either lascivity, lust or revenge.

Boiga cyanea

The Boiga cyanea, or Green Cat Snake, has a long body, head distinctly broader than neck, and large eyes with vertical pupil.

Cacophis

Golden-crowned Snake, (Cacophis squamulosus)
Dumeril, Bibron & Dumeril, 1854

Northern Dwarf-crowned Snake, or pocket cobra (Cacophis churchilli)
Wells and Wellington, 1985

Dwarf-crowned Snake, (Cacophis krefftii)
Günther, 1863

Calliophis bivirgatus

Like the New World coral snakes (genus Micrurus), it defends itself by displaying its brightly colored body.

Collett's snake

The venom produced by the Collett's Snake is similar to the Papuan Black Snake's and Mulga Snake's venom.

It is similar in physical structure (but not appearance) to the Red-Bellied Black Snake.

Creations of Daji

The Snake Pit would be the first introduced mechanism during chapter 17 of Fengshen Yanyi.

Echiopsis

The Lake Cronin Snake, Paroplocephalus atriceps, was also placed in this genus before being moved to the latter.

Eddie Chong

Bak Mei emphasizes the movements of the Tiger, but Bak Mei also uses the other four animal styles associated with the Henan Shaolin Temple as well such as the Tiger, the Crane, the Leopard, the Snake and the Dragon.

FX-05 Xiuhcoatl

The FX-05 "Xiuhcoatl" (FX-05 "Fire Snake", literally "Turquoise-Serpent" in Classical Nahuatl) is a Mexican assault rifle, designed and built by the Dirección General de Industria Militar del Ejército (Directorate General of the Army Military Industry).

Hyrrokkin

Snake-witch stone, a picture stone depicting a female grasping two snakes

Iwakuni, Yamaguchi

The white snakes found in Iwakuni are usually the albino variety of the Japanese Rat Snake.

Lou Carcolh

It was described as being both a serpent and mollusk at the same time, taking characteristics from both types of animals.

Marcus Garvey Park

Early Dutch settlers called the hill Slang Berg, or Snake Hill.

Nagamalai

Of these hills, three small but prominent hills (Yanaimalai, Pasumalai and Nagamalai — Elephant, Cow, and Snake Hill respectively) have several interesting legends associated with them.

Pseudechis

The most recognisable and widespread species in the genus are the Red-bellied Black Snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) and the Mulga Snake (King Brown) (Pseudechis australis).

The genus Pseudechis contains the group of elapids commonly referred to as the Black Snakes.

Qacha's Nek

The town is home to Lesotho's first and only Snake Park, which is conveniently situated at the foot of the historic Letloepe hill/rock formation, where the cave of Qacha, the son of Baphuthi's Chief Moorosi and after whom the town is named, is situated.

Rattler Race

Rattler Race is a puzzle video game, created in 1991 by Christopher Lee Fraley, based largely on the 1970s game simply called Snake.

Serpent Nunatak

Descriptively named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 because of the nunataks shape, the reverse letter S supposedly resembles a Serpent.

Snake-stones

Persian/Iranian writer Kazwini describes the snake-stone as being the size of a small nut.

Snake-witch stone

Hyrrokkin, a female jötunn in Norse mythology who uses snakes as reins

Snake's Revenge

Whereas the game reveals the main villain to be Big Boss, who betrayed Snake in the first Metal Gear, the instruction manual identifies the villain as "Higharolla Kockamamie" (a play on Ayatollah Khomeini), an Eastern despot who obtained the plans for his "Ultra-Sheik Nuclear Attack Tank" (the manual's name for Metal Gear) from Vermon CaTaffy (a play on Muammar Gaddafi, the supposed villain from the original Metal Gear).

The Recording of Mr Beast

The documentary was filmed in one week near the end of the recording of the album, and features footage of Mogwai recording "We're No Here" and "Glasgow Mega-Snake".

Wamaw K'awiil

A small panel in a private collection names the king, accords him the Snake emblem glyph, and depicts him playing ball with the king of Hix Witz — suggesting that Calakmul retained at least part of its network of subordinate sites in the years after the second Tikal defeat of c.

Whizzer and Chips

The leader of the Whizz-Kids was a boy called Sid and his snake Slippy, from the Sid's Snake comic strip.

ZooParc de Beauval

At the beginning of this house is a vivarium, home to one hundred Snakes, as well as Turtles and Nile crocodiles that can be observed underwater.


13th Aero Squadron

After a short period of organization, which included "snake-chasing and cactus-cutting", the squadron was moved to Wilbur Wright Field, Ohio in the beginning of July where its aviation cadets began flight training on the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny trainer.

A. prasina

Ahaetulla prasina, the Oriental whipsnake, a tree snake species found in South and Southeast Asia

Alfred William Alcock

In Baluchistan he dealt with his first case of a fatal snake bite from an Echis carinatus.

Aquiles Priester

Aquiles endorses: Paiste, Mapex, Evans, Pro-Mark, Audio-Technica, DW Pedals, Gibraltar Hardware, Zoom, Staff Drum, Santo Angelo, Urban Boards, Ciclotron, Shred Cases, AeroRic Custom Drums, Tander Tattoo Studio and Lady Snake Rock Wear.

Beacon Fell, Lancashire

The fell features a number of sculptures by local artist Thompson Dagnall, including Black Tiger and Kissing Seat (2006), Walking Snake (1998), Hanging Bat (1998), Spruced up Heron (1996) and Orme Sight (1996).

Big Tigger

Morgan began his rap career when he was featured on "Snake", a top-20 song from R. Kelly's 2003 album, Chocolate Factory and a hidden track on Ginuwine's 2003 album The Senior.

Bitis schneideri

This snake ranges from the white coastal sand dunes of Namibia, near Lüderitz, south to Hondeklip Bay, Little Namaqualand, South Africa.

Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve

The lowveld woodlands harbour purple-crested lourie, emerald cuckoo, red-backed mannikin, golden-tailed woodpecker, gorgeous bushshrike, white-faced owl and a number of raptors like white-backed vulture, gymnogene, black-chested snake eagle, Wahlberg's eagle and long-crested Eagle.

Eric Forrest

He joined Voivod in early 1994 following the departure of original vocalist Denis "Snake" Bélanger.

Erythrolamprus bizona

It burrows primarily near the Pouteria caimito, commonly known as the abiu, a tropical fruit tree, the nutrients of which supply the snake's clutch of eggs.

EskDale, Utah

The town is home to EskDale High School, which serves EskDale, Garrison, Utah, Burbank, Utah, and Baker, Nevada, along with other locals in the Snake Valley area.

Femizons

Asp, former member of the Serpent Society, now a part of BAD Girls, Inc., a snake-charmer that shoots blasts that cause paralysis.

Haietlik

A mythical water serpent of the Nootka, the name Haietlik means Lightning Snake.

Hoback River

It rises in the southern Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and flows northeast through the Teton National Forest, before turning northwest to join the Snake just downstream of Jackson Hole, near the head of the Snake River Canyon and near the town of Hoback.

Howard K. Gloyd

He is also honored by having several species named after him, including the genus of Asian pit vipers, Gloydius, the Eastern Fox Snake, Pantherophis gloydi, and the Dusty Hognose Snake, Heterodon nasicus gloydi.

Hugh Lupton

Lupton tells a wide variety of stories, including Epics such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, but also collections of shorter stories such as "I become part of it (tales from the pre-world)" and folktales such as "The Three Snake Leaves (tales from the Grimm Forest)".

Kamandag

Senator Bong Revilla, Jr. was offered the role of Haring Saban, a Snake King, but couldn't take it because of his busy schedule with politics and his sci-fi film Resiklo.

L. bakeri

Leptodeira bakeri, Ruthven, 1936, the Baker's cat-eyed snake, a snake species in the genus Leptodeira

Lalim

It is supported by the affluents of the River Varosa, which snake through the municipality of Lamego, forming an accidented relief and dense vegetation of pine, chestnut, heather (Ericaceae), carqueja, tojo, giestas and mimosas trees.

Metal Gear / Solid Snake: Music Compilation of Hideo Kojima / Red Disc

Metal Gear / Solid Snake: Music Compilation of Hideo Kojima / Red Disc contains mainly remixed music from Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, however some of the versions of the music are original.

Mud adder

Further confirmation of the species' new habitat came with a report on the results of raising water levels for environmental purposes at several sites along the Murray River at the Victoria - New South Wales border, making special note of the snake.

Nerodia clarkii

A third subspecies, the Atlantic salt marsh snake (N. c. taeniata), is restricted to a small stretch of coastline in Volusia and Indian River Counties, Florida.

Nome mining district

It was discovered in 1898 when Erik Lindblom, Jafet Lindeberg and John Brynteson, the "Three Lucky Swedes", found placer gold deposits on Anvil Creek and on the Snake River, a few miles from the future site of Nome.

Northwestern garter snake

The northwestern garter snake is small, with adults averaging around 36–53 cm (14–21 inches) in total length.

Numbertime

This series also introduced the character of Addem (voiced by Brian Bowles), a snake who discovered the series' concept in the company of an ant named Anne (voiced by Moir Leslie) and a hundred other ants (voiced by Richard Pearce).

Pareas carinatus

The keeled slug-eating snake, Pareas carinatus, is a species of snake in the Colubridae family.

Ramblin' Tommy Scott

According to the introduction of his autobiography, Snake Oil, Superstars and Me, published in 2007 and co-authored by Randall Franks and Shirley Noe Swiesz, Scott was then 90 years old.

Red snake

Heterodon platirhinos, a.k.a. the eastern hog-nosed snake, a harmless colubrid found in the United States

Reptile centre

A Burmese Python at the reptile centre Serpent Safari in Gurnee, Illinois was billed as the heaviest living snake in captivity.

Ringhals

Rinkhals, a venomous species of snake with the ability to spit venom.

Snake Pass

The Autechre EP Anvil Vapre features track names deriving from locations around the Snake Pass.

Snake Tales

Snake Tales (also known as simply Snake, after the main character) is a comic strip written by Australian cartoonist Allan Salisbury (aka Sols).

T. vermicularis

Typhlops vermicularis, the European blind snake or worm snake, a reptile species found in Europe and Lebanon

Tears on Tape

The album's artwork, created by Daniel P. Carter, consists of a snake, circling the heartagram which is encased in a heptagram, or more specifically the Seal of Babalon.

The Mighty Peking Man

Like Tarzan, she has learned both to swing through the trees on vines and to communicate with and command the jungle animals, with the exception of a venomous snake who bites her on the inner thigh requiring the hero Johnny to suck out the poison while Samantha's leopard friend fights the snake.

The Snake King's Wife Part 2

The Snake King's Wife Part 2 (Khmer:ពស់កេងកង ភាគពីរ,Thai:งูเกงกอง ภาค 2 puos keng kang van Pei, also Giant Snake 2 and Snake Girl 2: Revenge) is a 1973 Cambodian-Thai horror film, a sequel to early 1970s film The Snake King's Wife.

Typhlops fornasinii

Fornasini's blind snake has been found in southern Mozambique, South Africa (Zululand), and southeastern Zimbabwe.

Uatchitodon

The teeth are similar to those of living venomous squamates such as Heloderma and venomous snakes.

White-throated Ground Dove

It has become extirpated from Guam (to USA) by predation from the introduced brown tree snake Boiga irregularis.

Yurlunggur camfieldensis

John Scanlon has presented this as evidence of descent from the former, rather than burrowing ancestors that evolved into the elongate and legless snakes.