If one sees a snake sitting over his head in a dream, it means that he will earn the respect of people in authority.... Dreaming that you hit a snake on the head and kill it, may mean that you’ll overcome your problems and triumph over your enemies, or that you or one of your close relatives will be healed of a disease.... For a woman to think a child places one on the back of her head, and she hears the snake’s hisses, foretells that she will be persuaded to yield up some possession seemingly for her good, but she will find out later that she has been inveigled into an intrigue in which enemies will tantalize her....