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Snake

Is one of the 'Five Poisonous Creatures' and the sixth animal in the Chinese calendar. Symbolizes cunning, evil, and supernatural power.

Traditionally all turtles was thought to be female why it for its reproduction needed to mate with snakes and that they because of this had no sense of shame. See also: zodiac, tortoise.

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