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...belief in a supreme God. Devils were a keystone of belief among the Aztecs, the Assyrians and the ancient Chinese. In the Buddhist scriptures, the Devil Mara appears at the head of an army of demons with "bodies of flame . .. with the skin of oxen, asses, boars . . . spitting snake venom-and swallowing balls of fire...
...sack from Germany, White caught him by the leather jesses tied to his feet, and set him on his gloved fist. "For an instant he stared upon me with a mad, marigold or dandelion eye, all his plumage flat to the body and his head crouched like a snake's in fear or hatred, then bated wildly from the fist." Upside down he hung, by his jesses, screaming his rage...
Science has tried to explain away most of the cases of reported monsters on the basis of facts known about living animals, but it is still stumped by several cases, Rosenbaum said. One of these is the Gloucester Harbor sea serpent, a 60-foot long humped back, snake-headed, smooth skinned piece of horror which appeared before hundreds of people on August...
...underground owl nest, covered it with a sheet of glass and set a camera in the earth beside it. Then he watched and took pictures while the eggs were hatched. When the nestlings appeared, he got his answer: when disturbed, the baby owls made a noise exactly like a snake's rattle. Nature may have supplied this trick to frighten off intruders...
...Fillet of a fenny snake...