Snakes kill over 40,000 people a year—though, with unreported incidents, the total may be over 100,000. About half of these deaths are in India. [16] Seelig, B. J. (2002). "The Rape of Medusa in the Temple of Athena: Aspects of Triangulation". International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. 83: 895–911. doi: 10.1516/3NLL-UG13-TP2J-927M. S2CID 28961886. Ovid. Metamorphoses, Volume I: Books 1–8. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Revised by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library No. 42. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977, first published 1916. ISBN 978-0-674-99046-3. Online version at Harvard University Press. Danner, Peter. “Westgriechische Giebeldekorationen, 1. Gorgoneia.” Römische Historische Mitteilungen 42 (2000), pp. 19–105.

It also goes by other names. It’s often called a plumber’s snake, an auger, and even a hair snake (because it’s so often used to remove hair). It comes in different materials (plastic or metal) as well as types (manual or motorized). Pretty simple, really. It’s a tool used by plumbers to remove whatever is clogging your sink. Its sole purpose is to get your water flowing smoothly again. And it works especially well to unclog a bathroom sink. Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.604–662. Roger Lancelyn Green suggests in his Tales of the Greek Heroes written for children that Athena used the aegis against Atlas.Zhang, Z.-Q. (2011). "Animal biodiversity: An introduction to higher-level classification and taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 7–12. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-10. Sun, W.; Hou, X. (1987). "Early Cambrian worms from Chengjiang, Yunnan, China: Maotianshania gen. nov" (Paywall). Acta Palaeontologica Sinica. 26 (3): 299–305. The most common snake in North America is the garter (gardener) snake. This snake is also Massachusetts’s state reptile. While previously thought to be nonvenomous, garter snakes do, in fact, produce a mild neurotoxic venom that is harmless to humans. [1]

Klages, Mary (2006). Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed. New York, NY: Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 99. Belson, Janer Danforth. “The Gorgoneion in Greek Architecture.” PhD diss., Bryn Mawr College, 1981. The word “snake” is from the Proto-Indo-European root * sneg-, meaning “to crawl, creeping thing.” The word “serpent” is from the Proto-Indo-European root * serp-, meaning “to crawl, creep.” [15] Kameron is using a flat plastic tool to unclog his drain, as you can see in the first portion of our video above. This handy plumbing tool is called a hair drain snake (or hair snake). They can be made out of plastic or metal. But the plastic will work fine for our purposes. a b Johnston, Elizabeth (6 November 2016). "The Original 'Nasty Woman' ". The Atlantic . Retrieved 5 December 2018.If you have tried to remove the clog yourself by hand, but it still won’t budge, try using a plunger to loosen up the hair.

Several early classics scholars interpreted the myth of Medusa as a quasi-historical – "based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, style, etc., in the past", [16] or "sublimated" memory of an actual invasion. [17] [13]In 1940, Sigmund Freud's "Das Medusenhaupt ( Medusa's Head)" was published posthumously. In Freud's interpretation: "To decapitate = to castrate. The terror of Medusa is thus a terror of castration that is linked to the sight of something. Numerous analyses have made us familiar with the occasion for this: it occurs when a boy, who has hitherto been unwilling to believe the threat of castration, catches sight of the female genitals, probably those of an adult, surrounded by hair, and essentially those of his mother." [19] In this perspective the "ravishingly beautiful" Medusa (see above) is the mother remembered in innocence; before the mythic truth of castration dawns on the subject. Classic Medusa, in contrast, is an Oedipal/libidinous symptom. Looking at the forbidden mother (in her hair-covered genitals, so to speak) stiffens the subject in illicit desire and freezes him in terror of the Father's retribution. There are no recorded instances of Medusa turning a woman to stone. Naturalist Paul Rosolie attempted to be the first person to survive being swallowed by an anaconda in 2014. Though he was wearing a specially designed carbon fiber suit equipped with a breathing system, cameras, and a communication system, he ultimately called off his stunt when he felt like the anaconda was breaking his arm as it tightened its grip around his body. [12]