She rolled in like a peach basket that had swallowed a hoop snake.

Sightings are still occasionally reported, even though the existence of the hoop snake has never been accepted by the scientific community.

The problem in his mind was like a hoop snake, rolling downhill toward a cliff, while it devoured itself, beginning at the tail.

The hoop snake is a creature of legend in the United States and Australia.

The legend of the hoop snake may refer to the coachwhip snakes.

Hoop snake, a snake which bites its tail to enable it to roll like a wheel.

The hoop snake myth has also been attributed to the coachwhip snake.

The mud snake is one of a few animals which may be the origin of the hoop snake myth.

Hoop Snakes fans feared Nigel might miss this weekend's game after he pleaded guilty to drug possession and dealing.

It is also possible that the hoop snake is an embellishment of actual instances of snakes swallowing their own tails.

Legend records that it will sometimes swallow its own tail so that it can roll like a hoop, similarly to the mythical hoop snake.

Naturalist Raymond Ditmars placed $10,000 in trust at a New York bank for the first person to provide evidence of a hoop snake.

The hoop snake is mentioned in a letter from 1784 (published in Tour in the U.S.A., Vol.

"Cannibal Baby, Hoop Snake, the Rolling Head - the inventive beasts of the world's folklore put Hollywood's movie monsters to shame.

They are an example of local lore intended to frighten and confuse outsiders and amuse locals, similar to the jackalope, hoop snake, wild haggis or snipe hunt.

Nigel Fortescue, the great Pro Bowl backbreaker for the Lone Star Hoop Snakes, has been released after serving six hours of community service.

Fortunately for the great All-Pro Hoop Snakes backbreaker, Nigel has broken more backs than any player in the history of the game, and he has broken all of them on behalf of Texas teams.

The hoop snake appears in the Pecos Bill stories; although it is his description of hoop snakes with which most people are most familiar, stories of the creature predate those fictional tales considerably.

Several sightings of the hoop snake have been alleged along the Minnesota-Wisconsin border in the St. Croix River valley and in Wake County in North Carolina and in Kamloops, British Columbia.

His description of the hoop snakes, which bit their own tails, curled up into the shape of a wheel, and then by deforming their belly muscles were able to roll along the trails carved through the jungle by the snipper beasts, had everyone chuckling.

Anti-drug extremists who complained that Nigel should get more than six hours of community service were squelched when prosecutors pointed out that the issue before the court was whether Texas fans next Sunday would rather see the great athlete idling behind bars or on the gridiron breaking backs for the Hoop Snakes.