Hoop Snake

Rolling after me,
A giant,speeding hoop snake
thank goodness it's missed me

Maybe the last line could be changed to: thank goodness, it missed.

That would make it five syllables.

Alex,thanks for the suggestion.I agree it was writtenslight ly wrong

Interestingly,this legend seems to have it's roots in reality.Some species of snake curl into a hoop shape for unknown reasons. This is remarkably similar to the amphisbaena of myth.This half-bird half-snake would put it's tail in it's mouth and roll away from danger.

This kind of snake appears frequently in Swedish folklore too, where it is often called "Hjulorm" or "Lindorm". A Swedish scientist that did research in folklore, Gunnar Olof Hylt

Hoop Snakes are NOT hoaxes! I live in PA in the country and have seen these back in the late 60's, but none since. They may have died out, or are just very rare. You can read a true encounter I had with one, one summer with my dad, here:
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Dreaded-Pennsylvania-Hoop-Snake&id=1030006

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:lol: Hi hi hi hillarious.. ! 😊

Thank you. You've helped me prove their real.

hi i was wondering if the hoop snake is real i need to know so please email me back




- brittney

thank you for the wonderful emformation 😊

Hoop snakes were included in the book "Elijah", when the preacher tells Elijah that if a hoop snake stings you, your body will explode, except for your head. Then you must wait in agony for 2 weeks before you die of starvation, since you no longer have a stomach. This, of course, is complete bogus. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the name of this author.

this has got to be one of the most childish, patheticly stupid thing to believe in. Snakes cannot even hold themselves upward for more than a few seconds, let alone hold themselves in a perfect circle capable of rolling. Then on top of that.. 60 mph? do you really belive that a wheel shaped piece of rope could propel itself at a cars speed? But wait it gets better.. A stinging tail that kills trees instntly, any venom capable of killing a tree in a few seconds would make any ither victim explode in a fiery cluster of flesh. I find it very humerous that any grown person would belive in anything so rediculous. Well, im off to find Bigfoot, and shoot him with my magic wand.

:cheese: 60mph is nothing.. hoop snakes in the alps can easily reach 200mph riding avalanches. But they will often crash into 1000 pieces at the bottom as they are very easily frozen. Most intelligent hoop snakes are even scared of icecream. But their fierce hunting instinct sometimes override that fear.

the hoop snake is not childish is is very real :roll:

Young hoop snakes are often a bit childish.. but they are very serious and methodic hunters from early puberty.

When I was about 10 I saw a snake "roll" itself out of my way. To me, it looked exactly like a wheel. Nobody believed me. Shortly afterward I read that it is an optical illusion. this was in 1979. 🐍 <--that is a snake too. By now I had assumed it was common knowledge.

:P Christopher Pual Curtis is the author of Eligah, my daughter just purchased the book from the book fair

The hoop snake is real and in SC.I was 8 yrs old picking black berrys with my Grandma when she said run Norma I said run. I went past her this snake was crawing after her. When I went passed her so did that snake.I saw it when it grabed its tail in its mouth. It looked like a holu hoop to me. I never new it was called a hoop snake till this year. BUT THEY ARE REAL.

thats a cool story :cheese:

I was reading this book and a man was telling two little boys about hoop snakes. The man said that if you got stung you would blow up. Now I know that hoop snakes are real but if anyone new what happened to you if you got stung , it would help. Thanks. :cheese:

To the scholar above who wrote the following:
********************************************* this has got to be one of the most childish, patheticly stupid thing to believe in. Snakes cannot even hold themselves upward for more than a few seconds, let alone hold themselves in a perfect circle capable of rolling.
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him saying that snakes can't hold themselves up for no more then a few seconds, well lets just say he's not near as knowledgable about snakes as he wants people to think. When I was in the Army, in Viet Nam, I went on R&R (rest and recreation) in Thailand. Me and some friends went hiking in the hills. I confronted a huge King Cobra and when he reared up, him and me was eye to eye for almost 8 minutes. Him growling, and close enough I could smell his nasty breath. I froze, knowing not to tempt this venomous giant in anyway. After what seemed like an eternity, he lowered himself and crawled off in the bush. And as far as the gentlemans knowledge of snakes, my grandfather lost a leg because a hoop snake stunk him while thrashing wheat in Oklahoma in 1917. Just because you don't see one or know nothing but whats on TV, it doesn't mean something doesn't exist. Turn off the video games, get out and "learn" and see things. And this applies to the gentleman who said the quote above..............sir, you are VERY SHELTERED. I can back up what I"m talking about, your intelligence didn't impress me. Have a good day.

When I was 6 years old in 1959 growing up just outside of Hanover,Ohio on a farm on wills road off of 668. I was riding on a hay wagon helping my dad,brother and mom putting up hay,My dad yelled and said look at that it was a hoop snake rolling around the hay field, My dad said don't get off of the wagon and my dad jumped on the wagon with us,My dad said watch because that may be the only hoop snake you'll ever see in a life time.Told me he has seen them when growing up in West Virgina when he was a kid back in the 30s I have only seen one other hoop snake in the 80's and I got to point it out to my kids,Yes people they are real and roll like a hoop,but they are rare to every being seen.My Dad did say they were a poison snake.

i have no idea what the hell i am doing

right now i am 10 years old and i know the wise guy who wrote that note on how hoop snakes arent real is a word im not yet aloud to say, but ima back that army guy up because even though ive never seen a hoop snake someone who used to be in the army or vise-versa would probrably know more than that crap-head and that is all i will say

i have a close friend in texas that told me he saw such a snake years ago in texas. i have no reason to doubt him as his tale had no "OH WOW" intent or fantastic nature. i forget how it ended; the snake either climbed into a tree or unwrapped at a tree or bush and crawled along on its way. the man is a university graduate and served in the military.
the ridicule for many stories is deserved as i do not believe the 60 mph part, or the stinging of a tree and instant death. some people tell in a mater-of-fact manner. they could be truthfully telling what they saw.

Hoop snakes are real cause my grampa died from a bite in 1960

Many years ago, when I was 8, I was riding w/bro,sis,father, and we saw a snake roling down a hillside and across the road.(in northern ark).we could not believe what we saw. It was about the size of a 24" bicycle tire. Just talking w/my 90 old aunt yesterday and she remembers when she was a child that her uncle kill one and her grandfather told them it was a "hoop" snake. It had a hard stinger in its tail.

In the early 50's my mother and I were driving down a gravel road in SE Kansas, and ahead of us, on the shoulder of the road, was a hoop shake going forward. She slowed down, pointed out what it was, and we watched it for a few minutes. It eventually went into the ditch. The area was nearby a timber area...needless, to say, it did exist.

the author is christopher paul curtis...Elijah of Buxton was the book refering yo hoop snakes.