Some people should be imprisoned for life.

[Kcl]

When i read these i was a little defensive but see you guys are just being informative and helpful so thanks but i kinda knew people would take the rattlesnake thing the wrong way. I don't in anyway shape or form think its ok to thread a snakes mouth shut. I was just trying to make a point that if the cultist did that to a rattlesnake at least i understand why this doesn't mean i'm defending doing that to a rattlesnake.

And to Flynn regarding voodoo i knew that's why they did it thanks for the heads up though. I don't know what the voodoo rulebook says about how or why they thread things mouths shut but i think cause people don't want to get bitten while doing their little ceremony. I'm not trying to argue im just theorizing. I'm don't know why they do that but i think is cause they are scared of getting bit....by a ball python lol. We understand ball pythons are nice but i think we forget 99.9% of the world are scared of snakes even harmless ball pythons. So they sew its mouth shut again im just theorizing. I hope all of this didn't come of as defensive of something im just trying to clear to air sorta speak and again thanks for your input fynn and craig.

While I know very little about these traditions, it's my understanding from the article and briefly googling that the sewing of the mouth shut is the main part of the ritual. It's not about not getting bitten - the point is for the snake to die slowly in agony from starvation, thus "inducing" these same feelings in the person the snake was linked to via the items in the mouth in the ritual. Without the torture induced in the animal by the sewing of the mouth, linking the person to the snake wouldn't create the desired pain in the target. Of course, as I said, the only things I know about this are from the article and a couple links on google so this is just my understanding of what is already only really a theory.

That said, I'm so glad she's doing ok!