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The asps — not snakes, she quickly corrects — are allegedly defanged and thus safe for her latest showcase.

Did she die by clasping an asp to her cleavage?

Sourdi’s family shield carried the sign of the asp, a venomous snake, which in Latin is “anguis.”

It wasn’t within easy reach, but maybe...A third idea slithered into her mind like a poisonous asp.

Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, poisoned herself with an asp, according to popular belief.