Black Snake

Black snake may refer to:

Snakes:

  • Pseudechis, any member of a genus of venomous elapids snakes found in Australia.
  • Coluber constrictor, a non-venomous colubrid species found in North America.
  • Elaphe obsoleta, a.k.a. the black rat snake, a non-venomous colubrid species found in North America.
  • Crotalus oreganus, a.k.a. the Northern Pacific rattlesnake, a venomous rattlesnake species found in North America.
  • Agkistrodon piscivorus, a.k.a. the cottonmouth, a venomous pitviper species found in North America.

Other:

  • A type of whip.
  • Black snake, a type of firework.
  • Chainbreaker (1760-1859), a Seneca chief also known as Governor Blacksnake.
  • Black Snake (film), made in 1973 and directed by Russ Meyer.

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or snake:

    “To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    “Even in a bamboo tube, a snake still wants to wiggle.”
    —Chinese proverb.