Wow, lol. Well, you've got all that right. It's most likely scared of the big smelly animals that keep picking it up. "Will it eat me?" I hear it's common for them to explore their environments for the first week or two, so I wouldn't worry about that unless it doesn't eventually stop.

I would look for some informative posts on ball python behavior for her to read. If she's going to be living with it, she really ought to understand that they DON'T LIKE handling. They just deal with it because they have no choice, and eventually learn that we won't eat them or anything.