The snake mosaic at the entrance to Southend Hospital is a symbol of healing to me. I have been treated most successfully and appreciate the professionalism of the staff. I am also a Christian and am ...

The lure and lore of snakes is historically common in newspapers. This example comes from an Associated Press article reprinted in The Daily Herald. It illustrates a story about an Illinois woman ...

In myth, snakes, or serpents, are often connected to seers and oracles. Teiresias is the most notorious seer in Greek myth. As a young man, he came upon a pair of coupling serpents on Mount Cithaeron, ...

BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- As the Spring Festival ushers in the Year of the Snake, China is flooded with auspicious representations of the hissing, scaly reptile, from pythons coiling around gold ...

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