Perhaps the best known legend about the snake is that of the cat headed viper, complete with paws and whiskers, and an uncanny power of fascinating birds. In the district of the Colde Forclaz. to see a snake before noon is a sign of a storm pending in the afternoon. This is probably a sound deduction from the habits of the beast, which is aware that it will have to eat early because the storm will compel it to lie up in the afternoon. There are many valleys in v;hich the view is held that to see a snake is a sign of a change in the weather. There are many supersitions about foxes. Strangely enough, Swiss legend has transferred to the fox our own legend of the dog which howls at night as a portent of impending death. No peasant in the districts where this be lief is held would dream of attacking or firing upon a fox in such conditions.