Snakestone - Ammonite

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Ammonites bisulcatus. “Same as ammonite; from an old popular notion that these shells were coiled snakes petrified.” —Whitney, 1889

Keywords

shell, snake, fossil, stone, ammonite, Saint Hilda, ammonites, beheading curse, coiled snake, petrified snake, snake stone, snakestone

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Squid, Octopus, and Nautilus

Source

William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5726

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