Snake handling, also called serpent handling, is a religious rite observed in a small number of isolated churches, mostly in the United States, usually...

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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instrument called a pungi. A typical performance may also include handling the snakes or performing other seemingly dangerous acts, as well as other street...

services. Snake-handling skills are also employed by first responders, park rangers, and military personnel. Layton, Julia (30 June 2015). "How Snake Handlers...

regularly bitten while participating in "snake handling" rituals. Snake handling is when people hold venomous snakes, unprotected, as part of a religious...

Geographic Channel reality television show Snake Salvation, which documented the lives of people who practice snake handling. He died from a rattlesnake bite during...

snake bites in the United States Snake handling in Christianity Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife. "Kentucky Snakes" (PDF) (PDF). Archived (PDF) from...

commercial wildlife demonstrator license and his authorisation to hold snake-handling courses and use wildlife in film and television. Hoser said that he...

Virginia, United States. The church service includes faith healing, snake handling, speaking in tongues and singing. This documentary has entered the public...

goes from covering the trial of Glenn Summerford to experiencing a snake handling church in Appalachia. The book was a finalist for the National Book...

American Pentecostal minister best known for popularizing the practice of snake handling. A native of rural Appalachia, Hensley experienced a religious conversion...

Rat snakes are members – along with kingsnakes, milk snakes, vine snakes and indigo snakes – of the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. They...

now goes by the name Felicity. He finds her taking part in a bizarre snake handling ceremony during which Felicity stands in a circle surrounded by venomous...

as well as some patristic texts, indicate that the orgia involved snake handling. Orgia may have been earlier manifestations of cult than the formal...

series. Inspired by his informal study of snake handling, Bell eventually decided to write a tale involving snakes and an extremist church because it "would...

Catchphrase Bill (Kill Bill), also known as Snake Charmer, a character from the Kill Bill films Snake handling (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...

by lightning four times, including in his grave. Glenn Summerford, a snake handling preacher convicted of attempted murder, described in the 1998 non-fiction...

Lemuel runs a sect that incorporates snake handling into his preaching. After a minor dies while handling snakes, Lemuel is warned that the police are...

Dial. Christianity is referenced throughout the book in the form of snake handling preachers, Baptists, and Mormonism, as well as an epigraph attributed...

venomous snakes in Greek mythology) Maenads (female snake-handling followers and maddened victims of Dionysos) Master of Animals Matriarchal religion Snake worship...

Snake worship is devotion to serpent deities. The tradition is nearly universal in the religions and mythologies of ancient cultures, where snakes were...

the Kalbelias have been pushed out of their traditional profession of snake handling. Now performing arts are a major source of income for them and these...

she clashes with Judy, who steals her ring. The Montgomerys lead a snake handling church and have an uneasy relationship with the Gemstones. When Peter...

venom residue on the skin to determine which type of snake was involved. Although Australian snakes can be very venomous, comparatively little is known...

Rhodes (Ron Eldard). Boyd's efforts are complicated by the arrival of a snake handling revival preacher named Billy St. Cyr (Joe Mazzello). Billy's success...

facial hair). However, Cam's popularity recovers after a mishap at a snake handling ceremony results in him being hospitalized. Cam later realizes his son...

show closed during its Boston tryout. In 1979, Preston portrayed a snake-handling family patriarch Hadley Chisholm in a CBS Western miniseries, The Chisholms...

as dimwitted and easily manipulated men, use of homemade drugs, and snake-handling revivalists. "Hillbillies" became a frequent gimmick in professional...

or snake, is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols. The word is derived from Latin serpens, a crawling animal or snake. Snakes have...