To be fair to the slightly oddball comparison, Mary Shelley didn't have a hand in the screenplay for Frankenstein either.

One of the weirdest things about Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie is the reveal that the 'real world' is entirely cat themed as well. Every human - hero or villain - lives in lonely isolation surrounded by weird cat ornaments.

If everyone's a crazy cat lady, then is anyone truly a crazy cat lady?

Snakes as symbols of wisdom goes beyond classical Europe. The snake on the Mexican coat of arms (seen on this jar of krameria root) references the founding myth of the city of Tenochtitlan, but more widely draws on beliefs about snakes as signifying wisdom in Aztec culture.

Although several medical organisations (as in this 1950s British Medical Association car badge) prefer twin snakes, that symbol is actually more reminiscent of the caduceus - associated with Hermes - than the rod of Asclepius (and so means commerce rather than healing).

There are several myths about why Asclepius (and hence medicine) got associated with snakes. Maybe snakes - already linked to wisdom - whispered secrets to him. Or maybe it's an embrace of medicine's duality: like a snake it can kill or cure.

Either way, hospitals still love a snake badge.

Salus inherited the association with snakes from Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, whose staff is still a medical symbol today.

Salus has sometimes been styled as Rome's equivalent to Asclepius's daughter Hygieia (from whom we get the word 'hygiene').

Snakes and just used for literal medicine, they are also a traditional medical symbols.

This ancient Roman coin shows Salus, goddess of health and welfare, whose iconography traditionally involves a snake on an altar.

Before these 1960s examples, there was no effective antivenom treatment for Africa's most feared deadly snake: the black mamba.

The World Health Organization is still concerned about producing enough antivenom for rare snakes like these, where it's hard to get enough actual venom to work with.

Theriac didn't cure snake bites, of course, but there's an element of 'like cures like' to modern antivenom. This is made from serum (the clear liquid part of blood) from livestock animals that have built up antibodies against snake venoms they have been exposed to.

While the word 'theriac' comes from the ancient Greek meaning 'concerning venomous wild animals', today the word lives on as 'treacle', so named because the molasses-like sugar syrup was remimiscent of the dark, sweet, sticky snake medicine. (Theriacs tended to have honey as a core ingredient).

A classic example of the 'hair of the dog that bit you' approach to medicine, theriac was an antidote to venom made from viper flesh.

As a popular cure-all, recipes for theriac could have up to 60 other ingredients from opium to carrots. In Italy, the production of theriac came with its own rituals

Cobra venom can kill in less than half an hour, but it also has a long history of use as a painkiller. There is even research into cobra venom's ability to fight cancer. Cytotoxins in cobra venom have been shown to rupture cells in certain leukaemia tumours.

Far from the only question we got with a DIY 💩 emoji.

(All those cartoon poo characters in the exhibition were designed by kids too)