Crazy Snake Myths, Wives' Tales & Folklore

[StudentoReptile]

I know we think we've heard them all, but feel free to post some of the crazy ones you have heard.
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Here is a link I came across: Snake Myths, Superstitions, & Old Wives Tales | My East Texas

• · Hang a snakeskin from the rafters to protect a house from fire [WOW, with all the old molts I got, this crib is solid against a nuclear blast].
• · Tie the dead body of a snake around the wound (presumably snake-bite?). [But wait...that REALLY conflicts with all the advice about NOT using a tourniquet and NOT bringing the dead snake with you....sheesh!]
• · Snakes inject their venom via their forked tongue. [Dang, I'm like a freakin' god, I must be immune to all snakes.]
• · Still others cultures see the snake as a bad omen. Seeing a snake cross one’s path, or dreaming of serpents are both said to be bad luck, specifically that you have an enemy. [Boy, I must have a LOT of enemies! LOL]
• · Pregnant women who are frightened by a snake will likely give birth to a child with a constricted neck. However, a conflicted superstition says snakes will never bite a pregnant woman. Some say that tying a snakeskin around the waist of a woman in labor will ease childbirth, while carrying a snakeskin is generally supposed to be beneficial to health, effective against headaches and in extracting thorns from the skin. Some believe that feeding women in labor a drink made from the powdered rattle of a rattlesnake will also ease childbirth.
• · Some people believe that hairs taken from the mane or tail of a horse and placed in stagnant water will turn into slender snakes.
• · The presence of snakes in the landscape is an indication of a healthy environment. Snakes are a unique part of our wildlife and should not be harmed. [How on earth is this a myth?!?!]
• · When a snake’s head is severed it will not die until sunset.
• · Milk snakes drink milk from cows and steal milk from dairies.
• · A snake can sting with its tail or tongue. [Wait…didn’t we already go over that one?]
• · Black Snakes and Copperheads can cross breed producing a poisonous black snake. [Sooo…that means we can’t eat it then, right?]