Numbered Discourses 5.230

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1. Numbered Discourses 5.230
2. 23. Long Wandering
3. Black Snakes (2nd)
4. “Mendicants, there are these five drawbacks of a black snake.
5. What five?
6. It’s irritable, acrimonious, venomous, fork-tongued, and treacherous.
7. These are the five dangers of a black snake.
8. In the same way there are five drawbacks of a female.
9. What five?
10. She’s irritable, acrimonious, venomous, fork-tongued, and treacherous.
11. This is a female’s venom:
12. usually she’s very lustful.
13. This is a female’s forked tongue:
14. usually she speaks divisively.
15. This is a female’s treachery:
16. usually she’s an adulteress.
17. These are the five drawbacks of a female.”