Submitted by:
Phorester, from About Forestry Forum, Snake Story Discussion
"striking her lifeless body ":
75 years ago in a Virginia newspaper:
"Several days ago a man travelling along the Northwestern Pike in the mountains west of here and coming toward this city, passed a dilapidated automobile parked at the roadside in which there two little children. They were crying bitterly and the man stopped his car and asked them what was the matter.
The little tots replied that their mother had been gone away from them for so long, that they missed her and wanted her back. One of the children pointed toward the mountain and said the mother had left them in the morning and gone in the mountain to gather blackberries, but had failed to return.
The man immediately started to search for the mother and after a long tramp into the wildest portion of the mountains he came across the body of the woman. She was dead.
Surrounding her were twenty to twenty-five large, venomous copperhead snakes still striking her lifeless body and circling around her. The woman's body was covered with bites from the serpents and was badly swollen."
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