I'll finish off my part with a last piece of ancient snakelore that relates to both this forum and to the longissima origin of this thread. Otherwise we may drift too far off topic for this site.



At certain ritual sites in Greece there were sacred serpents and devotees would leave sweet cakes for the snakes. Now of course no snake would ever eat a cake but from the point of view of attracting and feeding rodents this actually could have been beneficial to a local population of ratsnakes. It might have been one of the few cases of a symbiotic relationship between man and reptile in the ancient world.

Regards

John

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• Aesculapine Snake - Ophiophthalmos, Tue Feb 15 11:14:03 2005
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• Ron: - jfirneno, Tue Feb 15 18:43:28 2005
• Ignore accidental post right above this one... - jfirneno, Tue Feb 15 18:46:08 2005
• RE: Aesculapine Snake - Ophiophthalmos, Thu Feb 17 12:48:32 2005
• RE: Aesculapine Snake - nechushtan, Thu Feb 17 15:45:52 2005
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• Hellenic thought - nechushtan, Sun Feb 20 10:42:17 2005
• RE: Hellenic thought - nechushtan, Sun Feb 20 17:30:38 2005
• Ron, you have definitely immersed yourself in the literature... - jfirneno, Sun Feb 20 22:32:10 2005
• Aelian "On the Nature of Animals" - Nechushtan, Mon Feb 21 11:44:25 2005
• RE: Aelian "On the Nature of Animals" - jfirneno, Mon Feb 21 12:37:35 2005
• Maybe me...... - sjohn, Fri Feb 18 11:47:45 2005
• Excellent Scott ! NT - jfirneno, Fri Feb 18 20:36:05 2005