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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• who remembers this photo? - DeanAlessandrini, Mon Jun 27 15:23:06 2005
• RE: who remembers this photo? - lateralis, Mon Jun 27 18:49:26 2005
• RE: who remembers this photo? - cousinmike, Mon Jun 27 18:54:27 2005
• RE: who remembers this photo? - mrand, Tue Jun 28 00:58:58 2005
• Inspirational!! - dryguy, Tue Jun 28 16:58:10 2005
• Heck yeah!!! - Fred Albury, Tue Jun 28 02:46:50 2005
• RE: Heck yeah!!! - frankdunham, Tue Jun 28 09:55:04 2005
• ah yes, the little golden guide... - DeanAlessandrini, Tue Jun 28 12:13:17 2005
• Memories.... - Mike Meade, Tue Jun 28 13:29:32 2005
• a few books and the encyclopedias were all we had... - DeanAlessandrini, Tue Jun 28 15:43:06 2005
• LIKE A STEPHEN KING NOVEL.......truly scary - Fred Albury, Tue Jun 28 17:52:09 2005
• I have often thought... - DeanAlessandrini, Wed Jun 29 11:30:22 2005
• RE: a few books and the encyclopedias were all we had... - statchett, Wed Jun 29 20:59:43 2005
• Geez, are we all geezers? - Mike Meade, Wed Jun 29 23:24:00 2005
• RE: ah yes, the little golden guide... - VICtort, Tue Jun 28 21:53:51 2005
• RE: ah yes, the little golden guide... - antelope, Wed Jun 29 00:01:02 2005
• I'd check it out.... - crimsonking, Mon Jul 4 22:12:49 2005
• what a great photo... - Roe, Tue Jun 28 15:25:33 2005