Snake
Snakes were a variety of reptiles.
History
Earth snakes
A snake from Brazil was one of the animals on board the Ark. (TV: The Ark [+]Loading...["The Ark (TV story)"])
In Australia in 1987, Tegan Jovanka's father was hospitalised after a snake bite. (PROSE: Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat [+]Loading...["Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat (short story)"])
In Haiti in 1915, Charles Oscar Etienne was killed by a snake intended for the Doctor. (PROSE: White Darkness [+]Loading...["White Darkness (novel)"])
One snake which resided in Twycross Zoo was draped around Wanda's shoulders when she first met the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler; Rose was afraid of it. (COMIC: Untitled [+]Loading...["Untitled (10DY3 4 comic story)"])
George Thompson believed that the noise that the lift made (PROSE: My Special Book [+]Loading...["My Special Book (short story)"]) in the Rowbarton Estate (PROSE: Night Terrors [+]Loading...["Night Terrors (short story)"]) was actually a dragon or a monster, living in the walls like the snake in Harry Potter. (PROSE: My Special Book [+]Loading...["My Special Book (short story)"])
Snakes on other planets
A type of giant snake was native to Metebelis III at some point in its history. (TV: The Green Death [+]Loading...["The Green Death (TV story)"])
Giant purple Ice Snakes lived on Centuria. (COMIC: Enemy Mine [+]Loading...["Enemy Mine (comic story)"])
The Church once fought lava snakes. (TV: The Time of Angels [+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"])
A giant species of snake called the Oroborus was able to consume time. (TV: Oroborus [+]Loading...["Oroborus (TV story)"])
Another giant species of snake known as the Sythaks were native to the swamps of Palliox, a planet near Trion. In 1905, the travelling showman Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer had two Sythaks in his freakshow. (AUDIO: Freakshow [+]Loading...["Freakshow (audio story)"])
In a jungle on an unnamed planet, Gillian was threatened by a hooded snake, but the First Doctor saved her by throwing his coat over it. (COMIC: The Didus Expedition [+]Loading...["The Didus Expedition (comic story)"])
As part of his magic act for the Gods of Ragnarok in the Dark Circus, the Seventh Doctor appeared to conjure a snake, then transform it into his umbrella. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Loading...["The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)"])
Colony Sarff was a creature comprised of many snakes working together to mimic one humanoid individual. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"] / The Witch's Familiar [+]Loading...["The Witch's Familiar (TV story)"])
Usages
On Thoros Beta, sand snakes were consumed by the Mentors, such as Kiv. (TV: Mindwarp [+]Loading...["Mindwarp (TV story)"])
On Earth snake skin was sometimes used to to make shoes. (PROSE: Eternity Weeps [+]Loading...["Eternity Weeps (novel)"], Mad Dogs and Englishmen [+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"])
Emotive responses
Styre's experiments into fear on Sarah Jane Smith caused her to hallucinate a snake on her arm. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment [+]Loading...["The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)"]) Polly Wright was also always afraid of snakes. (AUDIO: House of Cards [+]Loading...["House of Cards (audio story)"])
When the Mara took physical form away from Dark Places of the Inside it took the form of a giant snake, both as a tattoo and as a physical snake. (TV: Kinda [+]Loading...["Kinda (TV story)"], Snakedance [+]Loading...["Snakedance (TV story)"])
Clara Oswald confessed she hated snakes. (PROSE: Into the Nowhere [+]Loading...["Into the Nowhere (short story)"])
References
In an alternate Paris of 1804, Randolph Eging compared the DNA molecule to two snakes coiled together. (PROSE: The Man in the Velvet Mask [+]Loading...["The Man in the Velvet Mask (novel)"])
In Greek mythology, Medusa (TV: The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"]) and the Gorgon had snakes for hair. (COMIC: The Gaze of the Gorgon [+]Loading...["The Gaze of the Gorgon (comic story)"])
Snakes and ladders was a game which used images of snakes. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead [+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)"])
Some belts had snake-themed buckles; one of which was worn by the Eighth Doctor. (COMIC: The Pictures of Josephine Day, A Matter of Life and Death, The Lost Dimension; TV: The Night of the Doctor) His successor, the War Doctor, wore it for some time; (TV: The Night of the Doctor; AUDIO: Light the Flame; WC: Doctors Assemble!) before switching for a belt with a box frame. (COMIC: The Clockwise War; TV: The Day of the Doctor)
The Ouroboros was the symbol of a snake eating its own tail. (PROSE: Falls the Shadow [+]Loading...["Falls the Shadow (novel)"])
The lower half of Qataka's cybernetic body was that of a snake. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"])
Behind the scenes
While PROSE: My Special Book claims that there was a snake in Harry Potter, it was actually a basilisk; this, however, can be explained by George Thompson simply misremembering the story.
