The Minoans of Bronze Age Crete were unique in the Mediterranean for their rituals, including those pertaining to the snake ...

A US pastor who was bitten by a deadly snake continues an archaic ritual in his blood-splattered shirt during a dramatic service captured on camera. Cody Coots is the pastor at the Full Gospel ...

A pastor known for handling snakes during his sermons tragically died after being bitten by a rattlesnake and refusing medical treatment. Jamie Coots, from Kentucky in the US, was a star of National ...

Shocked firefighters found a baby python with its mouth sewn shut in what is thought to be a bizarre voodoo ritual. The young snake was picked up by firefighter Scott Mullin last week after a family ...

Analyzing coprolites—the preserved poop of people—is dirty, stinky work. But every once in a while, it reveals something truly surprising. In the case of a new paper in the Journal of Archaeological ...

The distant drum beats reverberated through the countryside as the first of the jhapans (vans carrying snakes and charmers) made its way through the huge gateways of the once-illustrious palace and ...

Archeologists have found a carved python snake as tall as a man and 20 feet long inside a cave in the remote hills of the Kalahari Desert of Botswana they say is proof humans were performing rituals ...

Catching a snake is his job, but what stumped Salim Khan, who has his hands full tracking all kinds, was an 'official request' from the Haryana governor's house to get a snake for a religious ritual.

Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) [India], Oct 20 (ANI): In a bizarre tradition, Snake charmers in a village in Jamshedpur district get themselves bitten by the serpent with a belief that it will immune them ...