Funny.. :-) Another popular myth about snakes is about snake charmers. The whole flute and a cobra dancing to its tune routine is quite really easily explainable.. Snakes are tone deaf and can’t hear sounds in quite the same way like most other creatures or humans. They sense sounds through vibrations on a bone in their jaws. The kind of vibrations those bones can sense is usually low frequency (bass). They cannot distinguish between tones hence they cannot appreciate music. Snakes use whatever sounds they can sense as another form of protection – they consider bass sounds to be a possible sign of danger.
They can’t hear music from a flute quite the way we can. The reason they seem like they dance to it, is they think that they might be attacked by it so they just stay prepared in case the flute gets any closer.. They move along with the movement of a flute.. If a drummer or a bass guitar could make a snake dance, they may not be as fake as a snake charmers :-).. Drums and bass guitars being low frequency instruments, might be within the audible range of a snakes hearing perception, but even that being said, they are probably too tone deaf to recognize it as music.. It would probably just scare them.. I wonder if you could actually use drum beats to scare them away.. From: arslist Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 7:55 AM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Wonder how many of these tales are true.... ** “As long as you stop dead in your tracks, and show no signs of aggression, they do not attack. Their attack is mainly in self defense” I think this applies to some project managers I’ve met J. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: March 17, 2012 11:26 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: OT: Wonder how many of these tales are true.... ** Snakes are actually the most misunderstood creatures among our human race.. They are not as scary as they are made out to be and usually stay out of the way of humans or for that matter anything that is larger than them for one simple reason – or so I was told by a Catholic priest in India who was an Australian missionary and considered himself to be a subject matter expert on snakes.. He had a python for a pet named Gwen, which apparently was a baby but looked like a full grown python.. Most snakes have a very delicate vertebra that can snap even if a small child steps on it. Hence most of them stay away from anything that’s bigger than them. – which is practically everything..Most of them feed on smaller weaker creatures or attack the bigger ones when they are asleep. They ‘attack’ or bite humans and creatures as large as us, only when their existence is threatened.. I was also told that it’s a natural mechanism that the poisonous variety release venom when they bite when they are afraid.. Snakes are common in my native land – Goa, a little beach community on the west coast of India, which is about a few hundred miles south of Bombay.. We were never afraid of snakes and taught to co-exist. I’ve literally seen them crawl past me no more than 2 or 3 feet from me.. As long as you stop dead in your tracks, and show no signs of aggression, they do not attack. Their attack is mainly in self defense.. An exception to the rule may be a hungry python, who actually may view humans as a source of protein.. Joe From: Shellman, David Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 4:54 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Wonder how many of these tales are true.... ** I spent some time in the Pine Barrens for a wetlands class field trip. The area has more deer than humans. The soil is poor so there is little agriculture. The terrain is fairly flat and the brush is thick. It would be easy for individuals to walk in circles and not know it. There are a number of streams, bogs and wetlands. It's the kind of place that one would think of it being home to a eastern black panther or some other seemingly unearthly creature. It would be easy for one's imagination to come up with wild explanations to unusual sights and sounds. We found it to be a beautiful place with rare and endangered plants growing in the wet habitats. A place of beautiful butterflies, song birds, snowy egrets, hawks, and owls. Also throw in the occasional snake. Dave On Mar 16, 2012, at 10:23 PM, "Joe Martin D'Souza" <jdso...@shyle.net> wrote: ** Define lonely and creepy :-).. If you mean deathly quiet, its actually inviting.. I have been to a few places around South Jersey, and from that site, they make Cape May to be the most haunted town in Jersey.. I actually liked that town for its natural – almost untouched landscape.. Those little streams and small waterfalls (I think its called Childs Fall) were pretty places.. Sinking sand is not as treacherous as it is made out to be. if you can swim in water which is a whole lot less denser than sinking sand , you can ‘swim’ on sinking sand.. The key here is swim – and not try to walk or run away.. you literally lay down and crawl out of it as if you were swimming.. So unless there is some deadly creature like an alligator or a crocodile around, there is not much to worry about.. I had seen a show once on Discovery channel where some expert said it’s the fear and myth around how dangerous sinking sand can be, that makes most people panic and become victims of it.. Joe From: Boyd, Rebecca Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 5:40 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Wonder how many of these tales are true.... ** I grew in South Jersey. I can’t vouch for any of these tales, but I can tell you there’s over a million acres of pines trees & sand called the “Pine Barrens” in NJ. The Pine Barrens are as beautiful, lonely & creepy as it gets. Miles & miles of two lane roads with scrubby pine trees on either side. Every so often there’s a sandy one lane trail off to one side or the other. Turn off onto one of these roads. It just gets lonelier & creepier. You might find a quarry but don’t get too close – you could be up to your knees in sand & still sinking before you know it. You might see an old wreck of an abandoned car with bullet holes in every square inch. And then there are the remains of what looks like an animal carcass. Now try to find your way back out to the main road. The Pine Barrens is where the Jersey Devil is said to live. It was also an episode of The Sopranos, the one where Paulie & Christopher take a Russian mobster into the woods (the Pine Barrens), end up getting lost & have to spend the night in an abandoned vehicle. No wonder many of the places listed on the web page are in or around the Pine Barrens. On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Joe Martin D'Souza <jdso...@shyle.net> wrote: ** Is there any truth to it??? Was it ever investigated? Or is it just a widespread rumor? From: Jim Manara Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 4:31 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Wonder how many of these tales are true.... ** I grew up in Raritan, NJ and the old librarian is the mother of 4 boys. No wonder she is still moving around checking that things are the way they are supposed to be. Like we do when we send test transactions through our systems. Thanks for the memories. Jim Manara 480-273-0934 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: OT: Wonder how many of these tales are true.... From: Joe Martin D'Souza <jdso...@shyle.net> Date: Fri, March 16, 2012 1:20 pm To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ** I tend to have an interest in ‘supernatural’ phenomenon's, and a random search for haunted places in New Jersey yielded this result.. I really wonder how many of these are really authentic claims.. My guess leans towards none.. Anybody living in any of these listed cities that may have heard or know anything first hand about any of these listed sites??? http://www.theshadowlands.net/places/newjersey.htm Joe -- Rebecca Boyd Application Administrator Wake Forest University _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
