Philosophical Library/Open Road

Serpent (or Snake) If all symbols are really functions and signs of things imbued with energy, then the serpent or snake is, by analogy, symbolic of energy itself—of force pure and simple; hence its ambivalence and multivalencies.

Easter Sunday to place herbs and simples in a wooden vessel together with the dried carcase of a snake, which every person present must have touched with his, or her, fingers.

The herbs were then burned.

To prevent a child having the whooping-cough, hang an adder stone round its neck.

remote parts of the Highlands.

Serpents’ Eggs and Snake Eggs

The more one suffers, the more one helps. The purer the suffering, the greater is the gain.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
It is the law of love that rules

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My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents, and I lay them both at His feet.