These survival tips might actually get you killed

Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - 15:40 in Psychology & Sociology

The way you respond to a grizzly attack could determine if you become a scavenger's next meal. (272447 from Pixabay/)This story originally featured on Outdoor Life.My grandmother Inez used to stuff towels under her bedroom door whenever I came to visit. Steeped in Appalachian folklore, she believed that hoop snakes rolled downhill, that a milk snake would crawl into a crib to suck the breath from a newborn’s mouth, and that a baby rattlesnake—”three times more poisonous than its mother”—possessed the devil’s tongue. My fascination with the scaly creatures was a witch’s curse in her eyes, and she was deathly afraid that a serpent would crawl from my pocket and strike her in her sleep.”God knows,” she’d say when I dismissed her beliefs as so much mythology.“God knows the truth.” But what exactly is the truth? Much of the folklore surrounding nature and survival is transparently false. Let’s examine eight...

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