Snake handling, also called serpent handling, is a religious rite observed in a small number of isolated churches, mostly in the United States, usually...
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Snake handling may refer to: Snake handler, a person who professionally handles snakes Snake handling in Christianity, the religious practice involving...
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PMID 31190571. Snakes: Snakebite Venomous snakes List of dangerous snakes Snake handling in Christianity Epidemiology of snakebites Snake bites worldwide:...
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of fatal snake bites in the United States Snake handling in Christianity Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife. "Kentucky Snakes" (PDF) (PDF). Archived...
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Temple, Ellora, India A snake worship altar from south India Snake handling in Christianity George Went Hensley The perpetrator will be burnt alive, or...
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Pentecostalism (redirect from Pentecostal Christianity)
and Full Gospel Churches Redemption Hymnal Renewal theologian Snake handling in Christianity Worship Vondey, Wolfgang (2017). "Part 1: Full Gospel Story...
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Jamie Coots (category Snake handling pastors)
practice snake handling. He died from a rattlesnake bite during a service. Jamie Coots grew up in Middlesboro, Kentucky. He was a third-generation snake handler...
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The grass snake (Natrix natrix), sometimes called the ringed snake or water snake, is a Eurasian semi-aquatic non-venomous colubrid snake. It is often...
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George Went Hensley (category Snake handling pastors)
American Pentecostal minister best known for popularizing the practice of snake handling. A native of rural Appalachia, Hensley experienced a religious conversion...
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verb הדה (hada), meaning to stretch out one's hand (particularly to handle snakes, to snake-charm). Another possible meaning is "whom Jehovah directs". Bible...
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Gnosticism (redirect from Gnostic Christianity)
Ophites and the Serpentarians gave prominence to snake symbolism, and snake handling played a role in their ceremonies. Cerinthus (c. 100), the founder...
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Holy Ghost People (1967 film) (category Documentary films about Christianity in the United States)
Pentecostal community in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia, United States. The church service includes faith healing, snake handling, speaking in tongues and singing...
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Reptile (redirect from Vision in reptiles)
Squamata (lizards and snakes), and Rhynchocephalia (the tuatara). As of May 2023, about 12,000 living species of reptiles are listed in the Reptile Database...
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The lamb and lion (redirect from In like a lion, out like a lamb)
Peaceable Kingdom The Wolf and the Lamb Hosanna to God and the Lamb Snake handling Coat of arms of the London Borough of Barnet The Latter Day Saint movement's...
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The Righteous Gemstones (category Christianity in popular culture)
opulent lives funded by the church. In the first season, Eli's estranged brother-in-law, Baby Billy Freeman, is brought in to lead the Gemstones' new shopping-mall-based...
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Laying on of hands (section Eastern Christianity)
Priesthood blessing Reiki Right hand of Christian fellowship Snake handling Speaking in tongues Spiritual gift Spirituality Thaumaturgy "Strong's Hebrew:...
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Hoodoo (spirituality) (redirect from Doktor Snake)
buried. Proper handling of the umbilical cord and placenta ensured the mother would have another child. If the midwives did not properly handle these items...
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or the deacon. The song has been popular among practitioners of snake handling in Appalachia. Recordings by people with Wikipedia articles include:...
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The Little Friend (category Novels set in Mississippi)
bereavement, solitude and... cruelty." Christianity is referenced throughout the book in the form of snake handling preachers, Baptists, and Mormonism, as...
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Signs and Wonders (The X-Files) (category Snakes in popular culture)
story about a snake-handling church. Furthermore, Bell wanted the true antagonist of the episode to remain hidden until the very end. In order to do this...
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Ba'athist Syria (redirect from Ba'athist regime in Syria)
and do not have rights to ownership. In addition, the state decided the kinds of the crops to be planted, handling, and marketing of the products. Particularly...
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the Ministry. During one of his shifts in the Ministry guarding Sybill Trelawney's prophecy, Voldemort's pet snake Nagini attacks him. Harry, who is mentally...
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Trinidad and Tobago (redirect from Sports in Trinidad and Tobago)
There are at least 47 species of snakes, including only four dangerous venomous species (only in Trinidad and not in Tobago), lizards such as the green...
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Saint Patrick (category 5th-century writers in Latin)
bringing Christianity to Ireland (despite evidence of some earlier Christian presence on the island), and converting Ireland from paganism in the process...
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Naga Panchami (category Hindu snake worship)
against snake bites. Jangam Jogi (caste) Nagaradhane Snake handling Snake worship "Nag Panchami in 2022 | Calendar Labs". CalendarLabs. Verma 2000, pp...
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lizards, and snakes). The synapsids and the diapsids diverged about 320 million years ago, in the mid-Carboniferous period. Only later, in the Triassic...
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The Mists of Avalon (category Novels set in sub-Roman Britain)
le Fay), a priestess fighting to save her Celtic religion in a country where Christianity threatens to destroy the pagan way of life. The epic is focused...
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List of recurring The Simpsons characters (redirect from Snake Jailbird)
She ends up leaving him to return to her ex-boyfriend Snake. Gloria visits Snake in prison in "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", and refuses...
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Suicideboys (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
Tammany (2015) YungDeathLilLife (2015) High Tide in the Snake's Nest (2015) My Liver Will Handle What My Heart Can't (2015) Now the Moon's Rising (2015)...
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Anti-Americanism (redirect from Anti-American sentiment in Europe and Asia)
the U.S. improved in the following years, a 2020 Lowy Institute poll revealed it reverted to 2006 levels due to the U.S.'s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic...
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