Snake-Stones

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Snake-Stones are stones popularly believed to cure the bites of snakes, attributed to a porosity in their substance drawing off the poison.

Snake- Stones are usually taken from the head of the snake but have been said to be extracted from the tail as well.

[edit] Arabic

Arab writer Kazwini describes the snake stone as being the size of a small nut. An injury inflected by a venomous creature is to be immersed in warm water or sour milk, the snake stone is then dropped into the liquid which immediately draws out the poison.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.


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