mazacoatl

Updated: January 4, 2026

Lucien, laden with creepers wound all round his body, carried besides, at the end of his stick, the carcass of a horned snake Atropos Mexicanus which has scales standing erect behind its eyebrows, like little horns, which have obtained for it its Indian name of mazacoatl.

Lucien Biart - Adventures of a Young Naturalist