[HPforGrownups] Re: Nagini

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 192401

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Sandra Lynn <cresorchid at gmail.com> wrote:

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> John wrote:
> In any case as has been pointed out Boa's are non venomous and kill by
> constriction alone and Nagini is venomous, but of a phenomenal size far
> beyond any venomous species that exists, possibly therefore being a magical
> species?
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> Crescent:
> The "magical/religious" snakes of India are called Naga. I read somewhere
> (fanfiction) or assumed that Nagini was named for these snake and that she
> probably came from a species from India, but was truly magical. Not sure
> what the facts are though.
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In Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" the male and female cobras are Nag
and Nagaina respectively.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean56 at gmail.com>


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