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by Snake17 on December 20, 2004
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What such miths are most famous and popular over there? And which snake is seen as the most notorious ?
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by bush_viper17 on December 20, 2004
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The hoop snake is my favorite. It bites its own tail and rolls into a ball and rolls down the hill to chase after you. It whips you with its tail and kills you and then sticks its tail in your nose to see if your still breathing. Remember to alway run uphill when your running from a hoop snake. The pilot rattlesnake or pilot black snake is a black rat snake that leads rattlesnakes to there den site every year. ummmmm.Let's see. oh yeah, I have two stories people always tell. There was a father and son about to go fishing, while out looking for bait the young kid says "Daddy, why are these worms biting me" then the kid dropped dead. He had mistaked baby copperheads for worms. The other story is: There was a water skier at Lake Allatoona in north Georgia that wrecked and fell into a nest of cottonmouths. WHen friends got to the scene and pulled him out of the water, the cottonmouths were still attached to him. He has hundreds of bites. Needless to say he died. Of course these are false though. Cottonmouths dont live in Lake Allatoona. The most famous snake in the southeast is either the cottonmouth or the copperhead. Anything and everything is a copperhead unless its in the water.....then its a cottonmouth. lol.
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by KINGRIUS on December 20, 2004
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Correct me if I'm wrong, (definitely has happened)but I believe the most notorious snake is the rattlesnake in general. My favorite tale is that the black snakes will breed with the rattlers and give birth to hybrids that look like ordinary black snakes but are much more aggressive and of course their venom is much more potent. And why wouldn't it be?
Darius
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by Phobos on December 20, 2004
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Oh...the Milksnake is my favorite....goes around nursing from cows is finds in the barn or pasture.
Al
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by ALA_herp31 on December 20, 2004
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One of the strangest tells is the Milk Snake, they say it lives in barns and drinks the milk from the utter of a Cow. I know of hundreds of such tells. The Hoop Snake tells come from the old Mud Snake, which is actually a real Species, but dose not bite its tail and roll like a wheel “LOL”. Myths are such a strange part of mans culture, the myths associated with Snakes are part of the reason they are feared so much. To kill the myths mite help kill most of the fear..........Be safe ya’ll, happy herping Wally
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by LarryDFishel on December 20, 2004
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Working the snake room in a refuge I hear a lot of them.
As I just posted in an unrelated thread, I've met at least 3 different visitors from different states who claim to personally know the kid who died after mistaking the baby cottonmouths for worms.
I also get reports of pine snake/rattle snake hybrids now and then. I can at least understand how that one gets started, since the pine snake will vibrate it's tail when threatened, but it always comes with a story of someone who was killed by one.
The good news is that I've only met one person who had even heard of the milksnake myth, and he didn't think it sounded very likely. When people ask me how they got the name "milk snake", I explain the myth and tell them I think that's where the name came from and most people think it sounds ridiculous, so there is a ray of hope there.
Every few days I get someone who thinks they don't have to worry about being bitten by a coral snake because they are rear fanged and can't open their mouths wide enough to bite a human, or that they have to "chew on you a while". In all fairness, I used to beleive this one. It has been widely published in respectable places.
Lots of people think you can tell the age of a rattlesnake by counting the segments in its rattle.
Pigmy rattlesnakes are more dangerous than eastern diamondbacks.
Pigmy rattlesnales are not dangerous at all.
Black mambas, gaboon vipers, coral snakes or whatever was the most dangerous thing in the last nature show they watches is the most dangerous snake on earth.
Green mambas are more dangerous that blacks.
I need to start making notes when people tell me these things... :)
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by ALA_herp31 on December 20, 2004
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My grandfather once told me that he set in a field he hunted during the winter and saw what I think was probably a Black kingsnake fighting with a Copperhead. He said that every time the Copperhead would bite the King, the King would crawl over to a Milkweed plant and suck on it then go back and fight the Copperhead more. We all know this is just a tall-tail, But it was interesting to hear these old stories, it gives me the chance to tell those that belaevd the myths the real facts, it made for good conversation........Happy herping Wally
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by AquaHerp on December 20, 2004
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The water moccasin vs. the water skier story has happened in every popular recreation lake across the country. Yep, even those where the cottonmouth does not exsist to the educated herpetological world, like say....Michigan. Perhaps they do exsist and the scientist or avid herper making the discovery slipped and was sucked down by the undertow of these lakes and was eaten by that giant Volkswagon-sized catfish that also seems to dwell at the bottom of the dam in every one of these lakes as well.
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