First reptile book I ever had.

I can sit here and visualize the illustrations of almost all of the snakes from that book! I think I read it and looked at the pics until it literally fell apart.

I remember that indigo illustration...red face...in a barn hunting right? I think it was across from the corn snake pic that showed a very somber-colored corn snake, also in a barn, completely wrapped around a mouse.

You know that book also really screwed me up when I was a kid too...here's why: I was just barely reading when I read it the first time. I remember a section in the beginning called the "fallacies" or "folklore" something like that. Whatever it was called, I didn't understand the meaning of the word.

All I knew is that underneith it had illustrations such as "toad causing warts", "snake rolling like a hoop" and "snake whipping man with tail"

...since I didn't understand the meaning word fallacy, superstition...whatever it was, I thought the book was telling you these things as FACT...and I believed them until I was a bit older and had a better vocabulary and read it again!

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