Word: pythons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West): Oh, don't be technical. Answer me this-my palpitatin' python-would you like to have this whole Paradise to yourself...
...exhilaration of that dinner passed. In 1932 Fort died in The Bronx. But one man kept his discipleship alive. This was Tiffany Thayer, whose gaudy, perfervid novels (Thirteen Men, Thirteen Women, Illustrious Corpse, etc.) are not unlike the writings of Charles Fort, and who keeps a 9-ft. python...
Early next morning the Enterprise was warped into a pier at Haifa, Palestine. A gangplank was run ashore and perspiring British sailors began unloading the personal treasure of Ethiopia's fugitive Emperor: six automobiles, ten tons of trunks, boxes, bales and other personal baggage, a pet python, 100 steel-bound cases containing coins and bullion. Only a pistol shot away lay the Italian steamer Carnaro loaded with pilgrims for the Holy Land...
...doctors and scientists of the Wanyamwesi belong to a secret association called the Empire of the Snakes. Mr. Carnochan became a member, received the guild name Young Python, rose in knowledge and proficiency until only Kalola, the late great emperor of the Snake-Men, out ranked...
They caught cobras, mambas and other deadly serpents with their bare hands, were frequently bitten, but suffered no bad effect. Young Python Carnochan never was bitten, hopes never to be bitten, yet is positive he was immunized by lukago. Lukago is a black sticky medicine made from the heads of venomous snakes and the eyes, brains, tongues and other body parts of eagles, lions, owls, hyenas. In immunizing the Young Python, his Snake-Men colleagues lightly slashed his forehead, arms, back and legs, and into the gashes rubbed lukago. The treatment gave him a terrific headache...