“I find a black snake out enjoying the sun.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Journals, October 10, 1851
- In the mountainous town of Don Salvador Benedicto in Negros, a cobra went through the toilet of a villa and arose out of the bowl startling a tourist. More than twenty years ago, one of the largest massacre of trees in the country happened in this town.
- In Santa Maria, to find a snake in the corners of a house is a big thing. My uncle thought it was a toy. Do not go in there, they said when we left our house for five years. It is filled with snakes!
- Moses at once made a serpent of copper and put it on the pole, and whenever a serpent had bitten a man and he looked at the copper serpent, he survived.
- In Gaza, children sleep in tents where rats and snakes enter at any time.
- I left my town after they cemented that road. Dala’y Ulëg was it’s name. Road of Snakes. But which in our language, could also mean Snake Blood. Scarlet red, gushing, metallic.