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Nure-onna. "Nure-onna" (ぬれ女) from the Hyakkai-Zukan by Sawaki Suushi. Nure-onna (濡女, "wet woman") is a Japanese yōkai which resembles a reptilian creature with the head of a woman and the body of a snake. They are also seen as a paranormal phenomenon at sea under the name of nureyomejo. In legends, they are often said to consume ...
Constriction is a method used by several snake species to kill or subdue their prey. Although some species of venomous and mildly venomous snakes do use constriction to subdue their prey, most snakes which use constriction lack venom. [1] The snake strikes at its prey and holds on, pulling the prey into its coils or, in the case of very large ...
Chakravyuha. A depiction of the Padmavyūha or Chakravyūha formation as a labyrinth. Abhimanyu while entering the Kaurava 's chakravyūha. The Padmavyūha ( Sanskrit: पद्मव्यूह) or Chakravyūha ( Sanskrit: चक्रव्यूह) is a military formation used to surround enemies, depicted in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. It ...
Join, or Die. Join, or Die. a 1754 political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin published in The Pennsylvania Gazette in Philadelphia, addresses the disunity of the Thirteen Colonies during the French and Indian War; several decades later, the cartoon resurfaced as one of the most iconic symbols in support of the American Revolution.
The blood eagle was a method of ritual execution as detailed in late skaldic poetry. According to the two instances mentioned in the Christian sagas, the victims (in both cases members of royal families) were placed in a prone position, their ribs severed from the spine with a sharp tool, and their lungs pulled through the opening to create a ...
Princess Python, Zelda DuBois, is a snake charmer who controls a gigantic snake to help with her crimes. She first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #22 (Mar 1965), created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. [1] Zelda DuBois started out as a snake charmer, using a 25-foot python in her act. She later became a criminal, using a gigantic ...
Russell's viper ( Daboia russelli) in a sensing moment. Russell's viper ( Daboia russelii) is a highly venomous snake in the family Viperidae native to South Asia. It was described in 1797 by George Shaw and Frederick Polydore Nodder. It is named after Patrick Russell and is one of the big four snakes in India .
Even so, killing snakes for food is not illegal and they are sometimes used in soups and liquor. Last year, Pizza Hut teamed up with a Hong Kong restaurant to offer shredded snake meat as a topping.