Adam, Eve, and the Serpent --
Changing the Rods to Serpents --
God Tells Moses to Make a Fiery Serpent --
Hezekiah Destroys the Serpent of Moses --
Apollo and Python/ Bullfinch --
The Fate of Laocoön/ Virgil --
Perseus and Medusa/ Bullfinch --
Scylla and Charbydis/ Bullfinch --
The Boy and the Snake/ Gotthold Lessing --
The Dog Gellert/ Gesta Romanorum
The Eagle and the Serpent/
The Farmer and the Snake ; The Fowler and the Viper/ Aesop --
The Head and Tail of the Serpent/ Leo Tolstoi --
Killing a Serpent/ P'u Sung-ling --
The King, the Serpent and the Philosopher/ Gesta Romanorum --
The Laborer and the Snake/ Aesop --
Lion and Rattlesnake/ Ambrose Bierce --
The Man and the Adder/ Pilpay --
Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady/ Vernon Lee --
The Slanderer and the Snake/ Ivan Kriloff --
The Subtle Serpent/ Gesta Romanorum --
The Viper and the File ; The Wasp and the Snake/ Aesop --
Why There is Evil in the World/ Leo Tolstoi --
The Serpent as Amulet and Charm ; The Serpent as Phallic Emblem/ M. Oldfield Howey --
Serpent Worship and Snake Charming/ Catherine C. Hopley --
Tree and Serpent Worship/ James Fergusson --
The Antipathy of the Elephant and the Serpent/ Pliny, the Elder --
The Bruised Serpent/ W.H. Hudson --
On the Movement of Snakes/ Aristotle --
Secondary Sexual Characters of Snakes/ Charles Darwin --
The Serpent in Motion/ John Ruskin --
The Serpent's Tongue/ W.H. Hudson --
The Serpent's World/ Raymond L. Ditmars --
The Snake in the Stomach/ Henry D. Thoreau --
Snake Myths Smashed by Science/ C.B. Perkins --
Dust and the Serpent/ Leo Crane --
Egotism; or the Bosom Serpent/ Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The Man and the Snake/ Ambrose Bierce --
Old Rattler and the King Snake/ David Starr Jordon --
Rikii-Tikki-Tavi/ Rudyard Kipling --
Serpent Versus Donovan/ Alistair MacCrae --
Sinbad the Sailor's Third Voyage ; Snake Doctor/ Irvin S. Cobb.
The Adventure of the Speckled Band/ A. Conan Doyle --
The Fence that Moved/ Jules Verne Allen --
Knute, the Giant Bullsnake/ Glen Rounds --
The Peninsula Python/ Robert Bordner --
Snake Bit, Snake bit/ Henry Junius Nott --
A Snake Story/ Clay Emery --
Uncle Davy Lane/ H.E. Taliaferro ("Skitt") --
Elsie Venner: Master Bernard's Suspicions are Aroused/ Oliver Wendell Holmes --
Huckleberry Finn: What Comes of Handlin' Snake-Skin/ Samuel L. Clemens --
The Yamassee: The Rattlesnake/ William Gilmore Simms --
The Ancient Enmity/ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings --
A Black Snake Attacks a Catbird's Nest/ John Burroughs --
Every Stick a Snake/ E. Temple-Perkins --
The Psylli and the Serpents/ Duchess d'Abrantes --
Snakes as Pets/ Clifford B. Moore --
The Story of a Snake/ A.W. Rolker --
A Tree-Climbing Blacksnake/ Henry D. Thoreau --
The Death of Cleopatra/ William Shakespeare --
The Hopi Snake Dance/ D.H. Lawrence --
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the King Cobra/ Edgar Lee Masters --
The Boy and the Snake/ Charles and Mary Lamb --
Cadmus and Harmonia/ Matthew Arnold --
The Conqueror Worm/ Edgar Allan Poe --
The Copperhead/ Bret Harte --
Cristabel/ Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
The Double-Headed Snake of Newbury/ John Greenleaf Whittier --
Nature Poem/ Emily Dickinson --
Paradise Lost Because of the Serpent/ John Milton --
The Sea-Serpent/ Planché --
The Serpent that Dances/ Carles Baudelaire --
Snake/ John Russell MCarthy --
The Snake-Charmer/ Thomas Gordon Hake --
The Snakes/ Eugene Field --
The Vision of Hell/ Dante Alighieri.