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THE SNAKE HANDLER is a fast paced, non-fiction thriller that documents the amazing and intriguing fifteen-year battle of a courageous Virginia farmer seeking justice against a network of wealthy and powerful criminals — including a former Kentucky Senator, a former U.S. Congressman and Philadelphia lawyer, a former FBI agent, a prominent law ...
Snake handling, also called serpent handling, is a religious rite observed in a small number of isolated churches, mostly in the United States, usually characterized as rural and part of the Holiness movement.
1 de feb. de 2021 · After a number of high-profile deaths, some Pentecostal Christian snake handlers are rethinking their approach to a risky practice.
11 de ago. de 2009 · The snake-handling tradition grew out of American Pentecostalism, specifically Pentecostals’ emphasis on supernatural signs as evidence of God’s presence in their lives. The most famous early snake handler was George Went Hensley, who began handling rattlesnakes in the early 1910s.
Snake handlers risk their lives every time they hold a venomous snake. Learn more about snake handlers at HowStuffWorks.
- Julia Layton
At Hamblin’s church, kids stay clear of snakes. Provoking snakes is banned as well. When new people—or women—handle a snake, a more experienced handler watches over them. Hamblin begins each service with a warning—“There's death in that box”—pointing to a pile of serpent boxes.
“Can Jesus be preached in the whole world without ecclesiasticism?” asked Frederich Naumann, a 20th-century charismatic. “Can molten gold be carried from place to place in anything but crucibles of iron and steel?” Modern snake handlers, deliberate in their disorganization, lack such crucibles.
