horn-snakes

Updated: May 6, 2025

I think, the Indians do not pretend to cure their Wound. The first is of the Horn-Snakes Colour, though less. The next is a very long Snake, differing in Colour, and will make nothing to swim over a River a League wide. They hang upon Birches and other Trees by the Water-Side.

John Lawson - A New Voyage to Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country; together with the present state thereof; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians; giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc.

The captains acquainted Mr. Carew, that the unfriendly Indians were not the only enemies he had to fear, for he must expect to encounter with great dangers and difficulties, as rattle-snakes, horn-snakes, black-snakes, lions, leopards, bears, wolves, and wild cats. However this did not dishearten our hero, for he was resolved to attempt regaining his liberty, let the consequence be what it would.

Unknown - The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew: King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the: Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that: Extraordinary Man

They had pleasant tales of horn-snakes, of such deadly malignity, that the thorn in their tails, struck into the largest tree in full verdure, instantly blasted it. They scented in the air of the country, deadly diseases, and to them, Boone's paradise was a Hinnom, the valley of the shadow of death.

Timothy Flint - The First White Man of the West: Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky;: Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country.