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The original snake from the garden of Eden; described in the Bible as "more crafty/cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made". For tempting Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it was cursed to forever crawl on its belly (implying that wasn't the case before), as well as for all of its descendents to be the enemies of humans.

A snake near a woman and a tree full of apples is usually going to be a reference to this.