What's Up With The Rattlesnake Rattles?
What's Up With Musicians Who Put Rattlesnake Rattles In Their Acoustic Instruments? There seems to be a long-standing aura connected with musicians playing acoustic instruments that are holding deep within certain talismans that are the rattles from a common rattlesnake. I have occasioned this curious practice living in North Carolina and I have wondered if the tradition goes back to origins in other countries. Rattlesnakes are indigenous only to the parts of the Western Hemisphere. So this may indicate an origin among Native American Indians. I have seen the topic discussed in forums giving many conflicting theories and explanations for the hard-core believers in the efficacy of having rattlesnake rattles inside their traditional acoustic stringed instruments. Some of the purposes given seem reasonable and some quite nonsensical to m...