Coahuila

[ANTHONY APPLEYARD]

 --- "Joanna M. Sanchez" <cihuatl at EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
> I wonder why such flight phenomena would be limited to serpents if a
> hallucination?

> Might it be true that desert snakes develop means of
> traversing the hot landscape with a minimum of bodily contact-
> seeming to 'fly' as they hurl themselves along?

He is describing "sidewinding". But people who are not hallucinating
would not confuse sidewinding with flying in the air. Possibly desert
mirages might be a part of the cause.

The nearest to a real flying snake is a species of jungle snake which
glides down from trees by moving its ribs to try to shape its body into
a crude aerofoil.