White serpent. No eyes

[StewardofSophia]

What you described sounds exactly like a Domovoy from Slavic folklore. Their two common images are white snakes and old men. I just made a post on my journal about them:

Rodnovery or Ancient Slavic Paganism

Domovoy, the Sjenovik of the House in Rodnovery. The earliest tradition of the Domovoy has it processing the form of a snake, specifically a white snake with a crown. In the same way that a snake gets rid of mice and increases the health and wealth of a house, so too does the Domovoy protect his house. Later on, he came to the become humanoid, commonly a man, but sometimes a woman, and resembled the master, or the mistress, of the house. Domovoy are invisible, to see one is a bad omen, it means…