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Terri has recently started a new theme for the Sunday Stills challenge called Animal of the Month. This month this theme is focusing on What’s #Scary in the Animal Kingdom?. For this challenge I have chosen the scary or sometimes no so scary (depending on your outlook) of Slithering Snakes.

Here are my contributions …

“There’s a snake lurking in the grass.”

Virgil

When are Snakes seemingly scary to me? Not when they’re encased in glass or cage encounters, then they are interesting to observe. However, when a Snake slithers across my path close to me, then my scary senses are on high alert.

“No matter how brave a man is, he will always look twice at a snake.”

—African Proverb

Whenever Coleman and I are hiking along trails in the woods, I keep my eyes on full alert. You never know what might be lurking under the leaves and sticks on the side of a trail.

Snakes and Spiders are the animals that humans think are the most scary to them. The smaller, everyday creatures (like snakes & spiders) are the ones that triggers the highest levels of raw, visceral fear and dread. 

“The snake is an absolute coldness. It has no warmth, no love, no voice. You can never tell what it is thinking, and that is why it terrifies us.”

— Unknown

Would you hold a few Snake in your hand(s)? I’d rather not, regardless if the snake was harmless or not.

“It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.”

– William Shakespeare

Why are some of us scared of Snakes? There are several possible reasons including evolutionary innate perceptual predisposition to quickly spot and easily learn to fear them. Other possible factors are unique physical traits, cultural stories, and learned fears; unfamiliarity with snakes, social conditioning, pop culture and/or movies, as well as myths and folklores about them.

 “A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip – only direct perception.”

Jaggi Vasudev (Sadhguru)

To me, when I see snake on a trail, by my home, or on any path I might walk I am leery, not sure if I should perceive it as scary or whether I should ignore it and keep moving forward. When I see snakes at Zoos, or museums, then I am not afraid. Why not? They are enclosed in cages or glass enclosures and I know I am safe to observe and admire them within a safe environment.

My grandson, as yet, doesn’t have fear of snakes, he finds them fascinating and enjoys reading about them in books.

“Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.”

– Kate Seredy

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