Add to ORKGIn its simplest form, the Bosom Serpent legend complex includes any story in which a person believes that an animal is living inside of their body. Normally the animal is a snake or lizard, although amphibians and worms are becoming the most common in modern variants (Bennett). Most Bosom Serpent legends begin in the same way: a person mysteriously becomes sick and complains that it feels like something is squirming around inside of them
Controlling vertebrate species obnoxious or even dangerous to them has been a concern of the human s...
This story is of a man used to go to the Pacific coast of Guatemala to work. There a snake spoke to ...
The image of the snake evokes the same terror and awe today as it did in the ancient Mediterranean ...
A short Hippocratic passage (Epidemiae 5: 86) might constitute the earliest Western surviving varian...
A short Hippocratic passage (Epidemiae 5: 86) might constitute the earliest Western surviving varian...
L’ensemble d'histoires autour du bosom serpent se réfère à des croyances et des récits diffus qui at...
Serpentine cryptids are to be found in stories throughout the world, invariably representing a provo...
I heard a story about a snake that can control people with its stare. When it is looking at you, you...
Snakes have played a major role in folklore and myth for as long as humans have been telling stories...
This paper explores narratives about eating the flesh of a dragon or whiteserpent. It is argued that...
Throughout centuries human fear has induced the emergence and formation of folkloric phenomena. It i...
The magical elements of the well-known account of the snake infestation and its remedy by a bronze s...
The image of the serpent is pervasive in the art and literature of Anglo-Saxon England. In Old Engli...
Since time immemorial the snake has been venerated as an enigmatic creature with supernatural power...
Mircea Eliade describes mythic narratives as telling “a sacred history … [by] disclos[ing] their [Su...
Controlling vertebrate species obnoxious or even dangerous to them has been a concern of the human s...
This story is of a man used to go to the Pacific coast of Guatemala to work. There a snake spoke to ...
The image of the snake evokes the same terror and awe today as it did in the ancient Mediterranean ...
A short Hippocratic passage (Epidemiae 5: 86) might constitute the earliest Western surviving varian...
A short Hippocratic passage (Epidemiae 5: 86) might constitute the earliest Western surviving varian...
L’ensemble d'histoires autour du bosom serpent se réfère à des croyances et des récits diffus qui at...
Serpentine cryptids are to be found in stories throughout the world, invariably representing a provo...
I heard a story about a snake that can control people with its stare. When it is looking at you, you...
Snakes have played a major role in folklore and myth for as long as humans have been telling stories...
This paper explores narratives about eating the flesh of a dragon or whiteserpent. It is argued that...
Throughout centuries human fear has induced the emergence and formation of folkloric phenomena. It i...
The magical elements of the well-known account of the snake infestation and its remedy by a bronze s...
The image of the serpent is pervasive in the art and literature of Anglo-Saxon England. In Old Engli...
Since time immemorial the snake has been venerated as an enigmatic creature with supernatural power...
Mircea Eliade describes mythic narratives as telling “a sacred history … [by] disclos[ing] their [Su...
Controlling vertebrate species obnoxious or even dangerous to them has been a concern of the human s...
This story is of a man used to go to the Pacific coast of Guatemala to work. There a snake spoke to ...
The image of the snake evokes the same terror and awe today as it did in the ancient Mediterranean ...