By: John Maler Collier (27 January 1850 - 11 April 1934), a leading English artist and an author, painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style.=The popularized understanding of "Eve and the serpent" in Genesis 3: is rather attractively set forth in this painting. It appeals to all the emotions of desire, sensuality, and fear. This serpent looks more like a boa constrictor, which is very appropriate: the evils of the people who represent the mentality of this snake ultimately act in this manner: they constrict our minds and our acts until we cannot move, as we are entranced by this cute little slitherer.

But this is not what happened at that event, as it is explained so accurately in the writings of most "Israelite Identity" writers and preachers, who profess that this was not a literal snake, but an interaction, i.e., an intercourse, sexually, between beings, whether human or otherwise, resulting in manifesting the problems many of us must endure today. But is is a beautiful painting.