Contests with Large Snakes The family of snakes called Boidae, including the Boas and Pythons are huge snakes confined to the hotter regions of the globe, and formidable from their vast strength and mode of attack.
The pythons closely resemble the true boas, but have the subcaudal plates double; the muzzle is sheathed with plates, and those covering the mouth of the jaws have pits.
This particular part of the South at this season of the year has the very climate suited to pythons and other large snakes of the tropics.
As the boa of Pliny was a serpent of Africa and of the south of Europe, it would have been well if the boas of America had been named pythons, and the pythons of India been called boas.
The bigpythons and anacondas never fight, nor try to commit murder.
Had we been big pythonsinstead of men they could not have said "Confound you!
Wallace[170] merely reports by hearsay that the pythonsin the Phillipines, which destroy young cattle, are said to reach more than forty feet.
He, like the other poets, makes special reference to the eyes sparkling with fire, and it may be noted that a similar brilliancy is mentioned by those who have observed pythons in their native condition.
The pythons and boas are distinctly tropical snakes: the pythons in Africa, India, Malaya, Australia; the boas in tropical America.
In the jungle where hunters for the arena seek wild beasts, pythons and wolves and hyenas growl and scream, and the strong doth ever lick from his jaws the blood of the weak.
Who payeth for the shining pythons and the wild bulls that toss bare bodies until from their bleeding wounds long entrails hang while bejeweled women and swine-snouted men cheer?
They wash thepythons with milk and anoint them with butter.
These Dinkas also pay great reverence to pythonsand all kinds of snakes.
They feed the pythonsonly once in four or five days.
In captivity the pythons will not eat of themselves, and the snake-charmers chop up pieces of meat and fowls and placing the food in the reptile's mouth massage it down the body.
Enormous pythons drew their green bodies over its sides.
Pythons and man-apes and devils I had seen no trace of, but here, beyond question, was the "Spirit of the Mountain.
Pythons are found in India, the islands of the Malay archipelago, and Australia, while the boas and anacondas live in the tropics of America.
However, some of the giant snakes, the pythons for instance, hold the eggs in the folds of the body.
The largest pythons reach a length of thirty feet and some of the boas are nearly as large.
Her heart was still pounding, perspiration streamed from her while she laughed hysterically and repeated to herself: "But pythons don't bite!
The pythons belong entirely to the tropics of the Old World, except a single species in southern Mexico; and number about twenty species.
Pythons inhabit nearly all the hotter parts of Africa, Asia, and Australia, and are sometimes known as rock-snakes, on account of their living much in rocky places.
Will climbed a huge tree, at imminent risk of pythons and rotten branches, and descried open country on our right front.
And taking advantage of that natural provision, twenty-foot pythons swung among them, in coloring and marking aping the habit of the tree.
All Serpents lay eggs, and the Pythons coil themselves round upon their eggs to protect them; the Boa-constrictors are inhabitants of America, the Pythons of the Old World.
In what words can I address you, ye unfortunates, sunk in the slushy ooze till the worship of mud-serpents, and unutterablePythons and poisonous slimy monstrosities, seems to you the worship of God?
Major Leonard holds that the pythons worshipped in Southern Nigeria are regarded as reincarnations of the dead; but this seems very doubtful.
Pythons are worshipped by the Ewe-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast, but apparently not from a belief that the souls of the dead are lodged in them.
The Pythons are large Serpents of Asia and Africa.
Guenther, "shew great similarity to the Pythonsand Boas, with regard to their internal structure as well as to their external characters.
The Pythons alone (so far as ascertained) perform a sort of incubation, which has been repeatedly observed of captive specimens of these huge Serpents.
In the Boas and Pythons the teeth are slender, curved, bending backwards and inwards above their base of attachment.
The common run of pythons is 10-15 feet, or rather I should say this is about the sized one you find with painful frequency in your chicken-house.
From the cavity emerged, with loud hisses and gaping jaws, a number of the largest pythons ever seen out of a drunkard's delirium.
All the pythons in Africa seem to have been preserved in that vault.
As a matter of fact, pythons seldom ventured so far south as Gcalekaland, and it was probably the fact of their extreme rarity which accounted for these creatures being so jealously reserved for the use of the highest in the land.
Tanned skins of Boas and Pythons are utilized for making shoes and fancy articles, such as purses, pocket-books, blotters, etc.
Siamese make the drum-heads of native drums out of the skins of Pythonsand Acrochordus.
Our Tropidonotus natrix stands between the Ground-snakes and the Water-snakes; Boas and Pythons are as much Water-snakes as Tree-snakes.
The genus Porocephalus is of special interest, because some of its species, such as Porocephalus armillatus, a parasite of African Pythons (Python regius, P.
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