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 …showed first 75 words of 1053 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1053 total…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.