Talk:Lamia/@comment-28066787-20161011184114/@comment-27950421-20161101021803

I fully understand that many modern snake eat things bigger than humans. However none of them eat animals that ate bigger around than humans even the caimans eaten by anacondas are not bigger around than an adult humans shoulders. Also, while wild snakes will eat things bigger around than the widest part of their body, they avoid doing so if at all possible. It's not good on them and I imagine that it would actually be painful to some degree.

As I had said the overall size of the Lamias tail is the width of her hips, and the only known snake that matches up is the Titanaboa. Maybe Gigantophis. You must keep in mind that approximately half of the snakes body length is lost due to the fact that the lamia tail would start at the widest part of the snakes body, not the head.

My titanaboa estimate still stands.

As for how long the lamias tail is, while main profile pic certainly portrays a lamia with a rather stocky tail, all of the other pieces of official art work shows their tail as being more reminiscent of the average terrest snake. Granted large sections of the tail are not visible in the images, the tail remains slender and is rather long. This would also mean that a Lamia could probably move rather quickly.