"'Witch' is a declaration of love and curiosity about all beings, all truths, especially those that aren’t cute or convenient or easily commercialized. Witches are kin with the troublesome and the uncanny and the strange."
http://www.socalwild.com/2018/08/778/778/
https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1146.htm#22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_of_the_woman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rmungandr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadjet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_pythons_in_Florida
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TWf-Y4ZhV7x7TIb1xtM1EnWLad1ZU6m3z-JBQjaauVo/edit
https://www.jstor.org/stable/29791957?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents
“You have to learn respect and care around snakes! They help me remember that nature is not all sweetness and light and big-eyed, long-eyelashed deer, but mystery and danger as well.” Jenny H.