Was walking the neighborhood streets with my wife, in NC, and there was a huge water moccasin lying in the road. I picked up a stick and confronted it, like any macho man would.
That snake rose up and balanced on the last foot of it’s tail and started swaying back and forth, looking me right in the eyes as if to say, “You think you bad with that little stick, come on if you got the balls, boy”.
I put the stick down and backed away. That snake was a badass!
I can believe that. I had a rattlesnake do that to me. It was small for a rattler, about 3 to 4 feet long and it actually bounced up on is tail while it wriggled around the whole time hissing at me.
If I had only had a camera.........but I didn’t, I had a deer rifle so I shot it.
There is a painting done by either Remington or Russel, of Indians in some kind of ceremony with snakes dancing on their tails. I don’t know if I saw the painting in one of my art books or a museum, wish I could find it again.
No one that I have told that story to as ever seen the same thing.