Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those days; besides, there are few on Andros, even today, who have actually seen a chickcharney (first cousin to a leprechaun). Some time ago a native awoke in a thicket at sunrise, after a rum-soaked night, and saw them by the thousands at their morning ritual-carrying snakes to hundreds of tiny cauldrons on the beach, anointing their supple bodies with snake oil, dressing themselves each with an almond leaf in front and an almond leaf behind, and swinging off through the trees like tiny Tarzans to hunt game with bows & arrows...
...Tennessee legislature decided that freedom of worship had its limits, passed a law prohibiting handling dangerous reptiles "in such a manner as to endanger the life or health of any person." Reason: in the past two years, two ministers of Tennessee's fanatical snake-handling religious cults have died of snakebite...
Personal Taste. In Detroit, a judge said it was all right- legally- if Mrs. Grayce Milton wanted to do her shopping with Nokomis, a six-foot pet king snake, coiled around her body...
...perverse generation of vipers, young man.' [But] that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell outwards like the fallin door of a coal stove, and he upsot the gourd inside of his teeth. I seed the mark of the truck agoing down his throat jist like a snake travelin through a wet sausage gut. He smelt into the gourd a good long smell, turned up his eyes, and said, 'Barm of life...
...Prater Violet, Sons and Lovers, Up Front, Eugene O'Neill's Plays, The Portable Dorothy Parker, Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Villon's Poems, Candide, Owen Wister's The Virginian, Rimbaud's Season in Hell, Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Ward's The Snake Pit, Wakeman's The Hucksters...