serpent-worship

• “This may arise from the remnants of serpent-worship floating in their minds, as, in addition to this horror of eating such animals, they sometimes render a sort of obeisance to living serpents by clapping their hands to them, and refusing to destroy the reptiles; but in the case of the hog they are conscious of no superstitious feeling.”

  Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

• “Men say our cult is a survival of the ancient Stygian serpent-worship.”

  The Hour of the Dragon

• “He told my parents that the boils had come in consequence of their neglect of serpent-worship, and that the children would be cured if my parents would again worship snakes.”

  Old Daniel

• “And now to remove the boils from their children they resolved to comply with the fortune-teller's directions, and go through a grand performance of serpent-worship.”

  Old Daniel

• “Or was it the commemoration of some battle in olden times, or the record of astronomical or geometrical discoveries, or a temple once devoted to serpent-worship, or what?”

  Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873

• “Even in the nineteenth century, idolatrous superstitions, fetishism, serpent-worship, and the cult of various jinns, Jewish practices, rest on the Sabbath, and the custom of vowing children to the keeping of certain religious observances till the age of puberty are still active almost everywhere.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize

• “But the point which is of most interest in connection with our inquiry is where Dom Benoit asserts that Satan is the god of Freemasonry, citing an obscure grade in which the ritual is connected with serpent-worship, and another in which the recipient is adjured "in the sacred name of Lucifer," to "uproot obscurantism.”

  Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer

• “I have a thing on serpent-worship," the scientist replied -- "written years ago.”

  The Damnation of Theron Ware

• “-- S.me additional light appears to have been thrown upon ancient serpent-worship in the West by the recent archaeological explorations of Mr. John S. Phené, F.G.S.,”

  Atlantis : the antediluvian world

• “Deronda's hotel; but she was then already far up the Obere Strasse, and she walked on with her usual floating movement, every line in her figure and drapery falling in gentle curves attractive to all eyes except those which discerned in them too close a resemblance to the serpent, and objected to the revival of serpent-worship.”

  Daniel Deronda

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