viper

• Then, the very name viper is a difficulty. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
• "A hair of the dog that bites you" is the cure for hydrophobia, the fat of the viper was the remedy for its bite, and "three scruples of the ashes of the witch, when she had been well and carefully burnt at a stake, is a sure catholicon against all the evil effects of witchcraft. —  Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
• Avoid (quoth he) as a viper, as a scorpion, as a basilisk, lest they infect thee not only by touching, but also with their very eyes and breath. —  Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
• "How could I speak to one whose mother is a sand-viper, and whose father a carrion crow Is that all You know," Say cried, "how mean Tyope is! —  The Delight Makers
• Then she will go and tell the old sand-viper, her mother, who will whisper it to Tyope himself. —  The Delight Makers

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