Whenever I meet new people at markets when I have my Serpent Sisters on display, I get two reactions. Either people are drawn in by them, or repulsed.
Once, I had a woman actively recoil when she realized that the ring she was admiring was a tiny snake! The push & pull of our instinctive reactions to snakes is FASCINATING to me.... I have a similar bone deep reaction whenever I stumble across a snake in real life! I will have a split second "Oh Holy Crap it's a snake!" moment before my brain finishes processing what I'm looking at before the "Aww coooool, it's a snake!" settles in.
(I live in Canada where the wildest snake we have is a garter snake, measuring no more than a foot and a half long and posing zero threat to me and mine. I suspect my reaction would be significantly different if I lived in a part of the world where a snake bite could harm me. I don't think garter snakes even have teeth?? Don't quote me on that!)