Pre-Islamic Middle Eastern regions were home to mysterious snake cults, according to two papers. From at least 1250 BC until around 550 AD residents of what is now the Persian Gulf worshipped snakes ...

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 ...

Since the lunar New Year, thousands of people have flocked to Tan Son village in Tan Dinh Commune, Lang Giang District, Bac Giang Province to see and worship a snake because they believe that it is ...

A man beats a drum during the snake worship ceremony at Shewang temple in Zhanghu town of Yanping district in Nanping, Southeast China's Fujian province, Aug 8, 2016. Snake is the totem of the locals ...

Snakes, and the mysterious subterranean world they inhabit, have always been fascinating, filling us with a primordial awe and fear. The author tells us how an elderly gentleman had once corrected him ...