Snake handler, a person who professionally handles snakes
Snake handling in Christianity, the religious practice involving handling snakes
Topics referred to by the same term
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Snakehandling, also called serpent handling, is a religious rite observed in a small number of isolated churches, mostly in the United States, usually...
Maine, with the last sighting in 1901. Snakes: Snakebite Venomous snakes List of dangerous snakesSnakehandling in Christianity Epidemiology of snakebites...
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 "snakehandling" rituals. Snakehandling is when people hold venomous snakes, unprotected, as part of a religious...
goes from covering the trial of Glenn Summerford to experiencing a snakehandling church in Appalachia. The book was a finalist for the National Book...
Geographic Channel reality television show Snake Salvation, which documented the lives of people who practice snakehandling. He died from a rattlesnake bite during...
snake bites in the United States Snakehandling 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...
Rat snakes are members – along with kingsnakes, milk snakes, vine snakes and indigo snakes – of the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. They...
Snake worship is devotion to serpent deities. The tradition is nearly universal in the religions and mythologies of ancient cultures, where snakes were...
American Pentecostal minister best known for popularizing the practice of snakehandling. A native of rural Appalachia, Hensley experienced a religious conversion...
Delacorte Press, 1995. For younger readers. Salvation on Sand Mountain: SnakeHandling and Salvation in Southern Appalachia, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley...
Lemuel runs a sect that incorporates snakehandling into his preaching. After a minor dies while handlingsnakes, Lemuel is warned that the police are...
Dial. Christianity is referenced throughout the book in the form of snakehandling preachers, Baptists, and Mormonism, as well as an epigraph attributed...
the Kalbelias have been pushed out of their traditional profession of snakehandling. Now performing arts are a major source of income for them and these...
venom residue on the skin to determine which type of snake was involved. Although Australian snakes can be very venomous, comparatively little is known...
by lightning four times, including in his grave. Glenn Summerford, a snakehandling preacher convicted of attempted murder, described in the 1998 non-fiction...
she clashes with Judy, who steals her ring. The Montgomerys lead a snakehandling church and have an uneasy relationship with the Gemstones. When Peter...
as dimwitted and easily manipulated men, use of homemade drugs, and snake-handling revivalists. "Hillbillies" became a frequent gimmick in professional...
better handling. Shelby American launched the new Shelby Super Snake in 2015. Due to the discontinuation of Shelby GT500, the 2015 Super Snake lost its...