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Reading the thread "Who was the first person to drink cow's milk?" in General Forteana, which discusses food discoveries and various tolerances and likes/dislikes for foods, put me in mind of stories surrounding the subject title:
Reports of snakes found alive and apparently thriving in the stomachs of their hosts have a long history, but little apparent veracity judging from what is known of the temperature/acidity conditions of the stomach itself.
Are these reports simply an Urban Legend, one based perhaps on genuine human parasites found in the countries from which these tales often originate? Or are there any true instances in which a snake (having entered the stomach of a sleeping person, as is the convention) - living or dead - has been proven?
In the first of the links below, the 'snake' turned out to be a toothbrush - a discovery that prompts consideration as to what other equally improbable objects might be ingested without knowledge or remembrance?
murrasaca.com/serpientenglish.htm
Link is dead. The MIA webpage (with images) can be accessed via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150623020417/http://www.murrasaca.com/serpientenglish.htm
onkar.s5.com/reptile.html
Link is dead. See later post for the content from the MIA webpage.
newts.org/~newtsweek/html/prodigious_vomiting.html
Link is dead. The MIA webpage simply contained the text from a Fortean Times article in FT 119 (February 1999). The salvaged text of that article is provided in a later post within this thread.
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Reports of snakes found alive and apparently thriving in the stomachs of their hosts have a long history, but little apparent veracity judging from what is known of the temperature/acidity conditions of the stomach itself.
Are these reports simply an Urban Legend, one based perhaps on genuine human parasites found in the countries from which these tales often originate? Or are there any true instances in which a snake (having entered the stomach of a sleeping person, as is the convention) - living or dead - has been proven?
In the first of the links below, the 'snake' turned out to be a toothbrush - a discovery that prompts consideration as to what other equally improbable objects might be ingested without knowledge or remembrance?
Link is dead. The MIA webpage (with images) can be accessed via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150623020417/http://www.murrasaca.com/serpientenglish.htm
Link is dead. See later post for the content from the MIA webpage.
Link is dead. The MIA webpage simply contained the text from a Fortean Times article in FT 119 (February 1999). The salvaged text of that article is provided in a later post within this thread.
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