Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are times when Dr. Jung actually seems to resemble a sorcerer rather than a psychiatrist. He loves to sprinkle his writing with scholastic terms from the Middle Ages. His home is filled with strange Asiatic sculptures. He wears a curious ring, ornamented with an ancient effigy of a snake, the bearer of light in the pre-Christian Gnostic cult. When hard at work, he often disappears for days into a towered, castlelike hideaway across the Lake of Zurich, where he does his own cooking, and diverts himself by chopping wood and carving esoteric inscriptions on large blocks of granite...
Buddhas & Serpents. Stonehenge has been credited, at one time or another, to the Phoenicians, Celts, Romans, Sumerians, Druids and early Christians. It has been called a solar calendar, a Buddhist shrine, a temple of snake worshipers, an altar where defeated leaders were sacrificed to the god Woden...
...either of which could kill a man if he didn't watch out." Doc Beall's most common prescription was lamp oil taken internally. He took it himself and lived almost 90 years. Mary, his sister, smoked chewing tobacco in a clay pipe, let a pet black snake have the run of her house, and outlived two husbands. When, in the hospital, her nurses took away her pipe and 'baccy, she begged a cigar from one of her visitors, broke it up and used it for chewing. She died one Sunday morning...
...temperature of the nearby air had no effect. Warm objects could be detected by the pit organ even through the cold air of a refrigerated room. But when a sheet of glass, opaque to long infra-red rays, was placed between the snake and a warm object, it "blinded" the pit. Drs. Bullock and Cowles conclude that the pit is a sort of "heat eye," sensitive to the infra-red rays that come from warm objects. It detects cold objects by giving less response than it does to the snake's room-temperature surroundings. A glass of water only...
This organ must be very useful to the snake, say Bullock and Cowles. Rattlesnakes have good eyesight, but they do most of their hunting at night or underground, and so must be grateful for an organ that points out warm prey. A snake crawling down a dark burrow after a warm mouse quivering at the end of it can "see" its prey through its pits...