

While watching **_Dragon Ball Z_** recently I noticed that the premise of the
episode _Princess Snake_ is undoubtedly similar to an episode of **_Boruto_**
(which I don't think has aired in English yet).

Both episodes feature snakes disguised as attractive and unreasonably
hospitable women who plan to prey on their guests. I don't feel like I can
explain it well enough, but if you watch both episodes I think you'll
understand why I feel like there is probably some well defined cultural
context that the writers derived their works from, like a folk legend or a
popular work of fiction.

I tried Googling to find out but I only found stuff about snakes with human-
female heads and snake-brides. I'm very curious and its really bugging me that
I can't figure this out. Does anyone here know if or what the snake-hostess
narrative is based on? I imagine that there are other shows that have used the
same plot that I'm not aware of.

P.S. From looking on the Naruto Wiki, I think the Boruto episode is #75, but I
don't remember for sure.


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Is Princess Snake based on folklore?


The archetype is most likely based off the [nure-
onna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nure-onna) from Japanese mythology, that
have the head of a woman and body of a snake and is know to be able to
shapeshift and prey on people


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