For this purpose the Snail is the natural remedy, being the ready scavenger of all such nuisances.

[Footnote 195: The edible snail, helix pomatia, L., is still an article of commerce in France and Italy.

Snails dressed in garlic are also a favourite dish.

But it was undoubtedly because Quetzalcoatl was the god of reproduction, for among the Aztecs the snail was a well known symbol of the process of parturition.