Egyptologists have discovered a 2,500-year-old tomb just south of Cairo containing numerous magical sayings meant to ward off snake bites. The tomb's entrance was covered with sayings aimed to both ...

Archaeologists have discovered the "richly decorated" tomb of an ancient Egyptian dignitary that is filled with magic spells aimed at protecting against snake bites. The tomb, thought to date to the ...

A study of a scroll made more than 2,300 years ago has revealed how there were likely far more venomous snakes in ancient Egypt than are living in the country today. The document, known as the ...

In the context of any possession ritual (not limited solely to serpent worship, but including practices like kola or theyyam), the process of spirit possession may be seen as a manifestation of an ...

Serpent Worship.—Mr. Wilfrid D. Hambly, assistant curator of African ethnology in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, has made a study of serpent worship in Africa which appears as ...