| Show hard to eradicate myths about snakes fear of snakes has led to a belief in various myths about the habits of different species children pass along the legend that the hoop snake possesses the power to form itself into a hoop and roll in pursuit of its victim tradition holds that the so called glass or jointed snake has the ability to break into pieces and may reas bamble itself later it its head has not been captured or destroyed then there Is the myth of the stinging snake although this snake has a somewhat formidable tall shaped like a horn or eelke it Is incapable of piercing or stinging anything with it perhaps the most popular of these aytha concerns the belief that it one throw a hair from a horses tall into a river or lake the hair will promptly turn into a water snake and swim |
