Horse Hair Snake
By clrumfelt
@clrumfelt (5597)
Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
3 responses
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
30 Oct 16
noperz, such don't work that way :)
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@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
30 Oct 16
No it really doesn't. The "snakes" were pin worms that eventually hatched out of the pond water in the jar.
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@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
21 Dec 16
@clrumfelt Bleech. I thought pin worms lived in to bottoms of children who eat too much dirt.
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
29 Oct 16
I have never heard of such a think. I don't like snakes of any size so I wouldn't try it though.
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@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
29 Oct 16
I was a kid when I heard of the trick and that was in the 1970's. And the critters weren't actually snakes, they were pin worms that hatched out from eggs in the water. Still just as icky as snakes.
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
29 Oct 16
@clrumfelt ewwwwwww that just gave me chills
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@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
29 Oct 16
@Happy2BeMe
I really thought the hair had magically turned into a snake, but as an adult with access to the internet I had to look it up and found the real explanation wasn't so magical at all.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
29 Oct 16
How could it be; could be some magic?
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@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
29 Oct 16
Really it is just science. The old farmers used to try and fascinate the younger generation with such tales. That was a long time before there were video games and the internet.
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