Chris and Simon lift the stone on a nest of ancient terrors, with bosom serpents, snakes on tombs and in graves, helpful household ophidians, and the medicinal horrors of Asclepius’s temple. ('It did what to you?!') Simon tells of his own blood-chilling encounter with a poisonous hisser, while fake snake women, flying serpents, and the perils of vino alla vipera slither revoltingly into the podcast. The duo bicker over cryptozoological creatures’ credibility and ask whether a snake can suckle on a breast or udder: the lap vs suck debate. Also fairies and snakes? Prepare to be amazed amid the Sicilian rosemary. Some biblio:Boss snakes : stories and sightings of giant snakes in North America, Chad ArmentThe bosom serpent : folklore and popular art, Harold SchechterTowards a Critical Anthology of Pre-Modern Bosom Serpent Folklore, Davide Ermacora, Roberto Labanti, Andrea MarconBig Snake  The Hunt for the World’s Longest Python, Robert Twigger. https://richlandcountyhistory.com/2019/05/08/the-great-serpent-of-lexington/ [this needs to go up as a separate post on the page - wonderful story!]http://hauntedohiobooks.com/news/creature-feature-the-mexican-mine-monster/Superfluous snakes – snake showers http://hauntedohiobooks.com/interesting-people/11830/A Woman-Eating Serpent: Hissssteria over Snakeshttp://hauntedohiobooks.com/news/woman-eating-serpent-hissssteria-snakes/https://www.the-daily-record.com/story/news/2012/08/19/when-wayne-was-whippersnapper-rogues/19462591007/SNAIX: Vintage Snake Tales http://hauntedohiobooks.com/news/snaix-vintage-snake-tales/For a superlative story of snake-terror, see “The Cat of the Cane-Brake,” by Frederick Stuart Greene.https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/snake-wine-china-vietnam#:~:text=Although%20this%20concoction%20is%20often,from%20rheumatism%20to%20hair%20loss.https://strongspage.com/places/chester-bedell/ [This and the next one could also be put on the page]https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2010/07/11/mike-harden-commentary-atheist-snakes/23668024007/

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