Definitions for hoop snake
hoop snake

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1. hoop snakenoun

   any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop

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1. hoop snakenoun

   A mythical creature of the United States and Australia, a snake that grasps its tail in its jaws and thereby rolls after its prey like a wheel.

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1. Hoop snake

   The hoop snake is a legendary creature of the United States, Canada, and Australia. It appears in the Pecos Bill stories; although his description of hoop snakes is the one with which people are most familiar, stories of the creature predate those fictional tales considerably. Several sightings of the hoop snake have been alleged along the Minnesota-Wisconsin border in the St. Croix River valley (Recently Hudson, Wisconsin), Wake County in North Carolina, Prince Edward Island, and Kamloops, British Columbia.

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1. hoop snake

   A hoop snake is a mythical creature from North American folklore, which is said to bite its own tail, form itself into a hoop shape, and roll after its victims. Despite some claims and sightings, there is no scientific evidence for the existence of such a creature. The idea of the hoop snake may derive from the behavior of real snakes that assume a hoop-like form as a defensive posture.

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1. Hoop snake

   The hoop snake is a legendary creature of the United States, Canada and Australia. The hoop snake appears in the Pecos Bill stories; although it is his description of hoop snakes with which most people are most familiar, stories of the creature predate those fictional tales considerably. Several sightings of the hoop snake have been alleged along the Minnesota-Wisconsin border in the St. Croix River valley and in Wake County in North Carolina and in Kamloops, British Columbia. According to folklore, the distinguishing feature of a hoop snake is that it can grasp its tail in its jaws and roll after its prey like a wheel, thus looking somewhat like the ouroboros of Greek mythology, or Tsuchinoko in Japan. In one version of the myth, the snake straightens out at the last second, skewering its victim with its venomous tail. The only escape is to hide behind a tree, which receives the deadly blow instead and promptly dies from the poison. The hoop snake is mentioned in a letter from 1784: Sightings are still occasionally reported, even though the existence of the hoop snake has never been accepted by the scientific community. Naturalist Raymond Ditmars placed $10,000 in trust at a New York bank for the first person to provide evidence of a hoop snake. Some have suggested that is a distorted description of the sidewinder of the American southwest, or of mud snakes, which will occasionally lie in a loose hoop shape. It is also possible that the hoop snake is an embellishment of actual instances of snakes swallowing their own tails. Photographic examples of this are readily found on the Internet today.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hoop snake in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hoop snake in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hoop snake
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hoop_Snake
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_Snake
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hoop snake