Why am I so terrified of snake's?

Question

This is an old wive's tale, but they say when u r pregnant and if u see something that scare's u and u grab your belly,it will mark your child. Well my Mother saw a snake when she was 8 month's pregnant with me and she grabbed her belly and ran! I am terrified of snake's but also kind of fascinated by them too. So I'm just wondering if any1 has any advice or if maybe the old wive's tale's r true????

Answer 1

My mom is afraid of snakes and we talk a lot about why she's scared of them. We came up with a really cool answer that I think sums it all up. In the garden of Eden, Satan appeared as a serpent to Adam and Eve. This serpent was the source of all of Eve's pain and sorrow, so why shouldn't women be scared of the thing that was instrumental in causing the fall from God? It would also explain why guys aren't as often scared of snakes, because the serpent spoke mainly to Eve and her desire for more than what she had, and Eve in turn tempted Adam. It just seems to make sense that we would run from Satan, so why not his image?

Answer 2

I've heard that wive's tale too, but I don't think that's the reason you are scared of snakes.

I am scared to death of snakes and I don't know why. I feel like I'm a very normal, logical person and I can't figure out why snakes freak me out so much. I've never had a bad experience with a snake, but everytime I see one I just freak out and get goose bumps all over me.

In my logical mind, that shouldn't happen unless you've had a bad experience with snakes and I haven't. I can't explain it, but snakes give me the creeps. I could handle any animal or insect or reptile in the world except for a snake.

I too am fascinated, but only like to see them behind a glass wall!!!

Answer 3

I doubt the old wive's tale is true, but in general, a lot of people have a fear of snakes. I know I do. And sometimes they send shivers up and down my spine if I see one sliding across a road while I'm driving. Maybe it all goes back to the story in Genesis of the enmity between the serpent and Eve and her children, of whom we all qualify.

Maybe it's the way they move, no legs, and slithery. When you touch one, though, they're dry, not slimy.

But I wouldn't worry about it. Once a snake and I met each other walking around a lake (I was fishing) and my cousin doubled up laughing, she said she didn't know which of took off in the opposite direction from each other faster, me or the snake. So I guess they can be afraid of us, too.

Answer 4

You have the folktale a little wrong. It's supposed to be a *literal* mark, like if you get startled by a rabbit, then you have a rabbit-shaped mark on the baby. So by that rationale, you'd have a snake-shaped mark from the experience.

I personally like snakes and think they're cool, but I'm not stupid about it. I'm not going to touch a snake unless I know for a fact that it's non-poisonous and even then, it could nip you with its snake teeth and that would be an owie. So don't freak out over them, but don't just pick them up willy-nilly. Moderation in all things.

Answer 5

According to Freud a snake is the sympol for your own sexuality, if you are extremely afraid of snakes, yet fascinated by them, there might be an aspect of your sex life that you don't want to let out. Those hidden desires are stored away in your subconsciousness, and your mind projects those fears onto another subject that represents that fear. So if you get aware of those oppressed desires/thoughts/wishes, there are good chances that phobia will disappear.

Answer 6

maximum rattle snakes will make the rattle warning sound in the previous they strike with the aid of fact they could choose which you are able to in basic terms bypass away extremely than to ought to chew you. Soooo...in basic terms make a great variety of noise everywhere you bypass. Sing once you get away from mattress (unload those cowboy boots the opposite direction up sturdy in the previous putting them on). Shuffle your ft plenty , confer with your self, etc. If the snake is conscious you're there, this is going to rattle. once you're making noise and don't hear the damn, you would be responsive to you're risk-free. (ought to be incredibly warm the place you're...when I lived in rattler u . s ., the snakes got here out to bake in the sunlight extremely than in seek of shade).

Answer 7

My mother told me this same thing, and was scared by a snake when she was pregnant with me. I guess I was marked, I love reptiles.
I think, to answer your question, that man's innate fear of snakes goes back in our collective memory when we we were simpler primates and lived in the trees. We still view the snake as a dangerous predator who wishes to eat us.

Answer 8

Fear of snakes comes from instincts passed on through the generations since we were cavemen. These instincts saved our ancestors from meeting an early fate. In some people this fear is more pronounced than in others.

Answer 9

Sheesh! What a stupid question. You have a phobia of snakes called Ophidiophobia or Ophiophobia. What are you gonna ask next? That you're afraid of teacups?

Answer 10

this story began in biblical times. It is said that EVE was seduced by the devil dressed as a snake to eat the forbidden fruit with ADAM, maybe he even seduced her into having sex with her. Maybe that`s why Cain committed the first crime.