Traditionally, Lamia was a Libyan queen who ate children, but John Keats might have turned her into a snake woman even though she wasn't originally, possibly combining her with Lilith, who was associated with the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Or they were already villains who just turned into snakes. Similarly, they are often evil because Snakes Are Sinister, but like many other Cute Monster Girls, Dark Is Not Evil may come into play. They may or may not talk in Sssssnake Talk. Snake People may have some proficiency for aquatic movement as well, either being superior swimmers than other species or actually being able to breathe underwater, in which case they would be a subtrope of Unscaled Merfolk, with the best of both worlds. Female Snake People are almost always depicted with Non-Mammal Mammaries and often with Non-Mammalian Hair they're almost always bewitchingly beautiful.
Most of the time such Snake People are depicted as slithering upright like a cobra about to strike, instead of slithering face-down with their whole body.
Also, for some reason, most examples are female.
Beings like this can also involve more exotic bodily configurations such as wings or changing the ratio of snake to human. Snake People, Nagas, Lamias, Valusians, or (courtesy of Steven Universe) "Sneople" are a type of liminal being usually depicted with a human head, arms and torso with the added twist of a snake's tail as a lower body, similar in many respects to a mermaid, centaur, and some genies.
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