The Bosom Serpent Legend through history : how the legend changes to address modern anxieties

dc.contributor.author	McCall, Laine	eng
dc.date.issued	2013	eng
dc.description.abstract	In its simplest form, the Bosom Serpent legend complex includes any story in which a person believes that an animal is living inside of their body. Normally the animal is a snake or lizard, although amphibians and worms are becoming the most common in modern variants (Bennett). Most Bosom Serpent legends begin in the same way: a person mysteriously becomes sick and complains that it feels like something is squirming around inside of them.	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Artifacts ; issue 08 (2013)	eng
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10355/38995	eng
dc.language	English	eng
dc.publisher	Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Artifacts ; issue 08 (2013)	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.subject	traditional healers	eng
dc.subject	Voodoo	eng
dc.subject	superstition	eng
dc.subject	sensationalism	eng
dc.subject	folklore	eng
dc.subject	allegory for guilt	eng
dc.title	The Bosom Serpent Legend through history : how the legend changes to address modern anxieties	eng
dc.type	Article	eng