Showing posts with label snake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snake. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

It Was Moving, Almost Imperceptibly, Towards Me (1906)

W.B. Northrup. "An Accidental Deity." The English Illustrated Magazine 34 (January 1906): 351.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Serpent is the Grandfather of the Owl (1902)

Florence Holbrook. The Book of Nature Myths. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1902)

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Somebody Kissed Her & She Awoke (1865)

Once A Week, An Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science & Popular Information.1 (December 1865). 

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

For Taking Too Much Milk They Struck the Serpent's Head with Spoons (1822)

Maria Hack. Stories of Animals: Intended for Children Five to Seven Years Old. (London: Harvey and Darton, 1822).

Friday, March 1, 2013

I Remained in a Swoon (1873)

I remained in a swoon until the scene had ended.
Snowdrop; or, The Adventures of a White Rabbit Related by Himself. (London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1873).

Friday, October 5, 2012

Neither Hands Nor Talons (1854)

Skeleton of a Cobra
Richard Owen, The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and the Teeth (Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854), 74.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Story of a Gazelle (1906)

The Gazelle cuts off the serpent's heads.
Andrew Lang, ed. "The Story of a Gazelle." The Violet Fairy Book. Illustrations by H.J. Ford. (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1906).