snake handling

Snake Handling The term snake handling refers to the practice in a few revivalistic rural churches of a few leaders and parishioners picking up poisonous snakes from a container usually a small cage during an emotional worship service. The snakes are held for a while, as the person moves about praying and sometimes singing. Those who handle the poisonous snakes are usually not bitten, and those who are bitten usually survive. Snakes have been a …

…will protect you by putting your life on the line to show just how much you believe. That is an incredible relationship with God. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Holy Bible. New International Version, Broadman & Holman, Nashville, 1995. Sewell, Dan. "Snake-handlers put faith to deadly test." The Daily Citizen-News Dalton, GA 23 April. 1995: 9A. Errickson, Eve. "Snake handlers: more than meets the eye." The University Echo 7 March. 1996: 10. Estep, Bill. "Reptiles raised to heavens a church service." Lexington Heald-Leader [KY] 17, September 1995.