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Salvation on Sand Mountain was a non-fiction finalist for the National Book Award. [3] Publishers Weekly described the text as "a captivating glimpse of an exotic religious sect." [4] Booklist described it as a "fascinating work [that] catches the essence of a place, southern Appalachia, its people, and the author's personal journey into his past."
George Went Hensley (May 2, 1881 – July 25, 1955) was an American Pentecostal minister best known for popularizing the practice of snake handling.A native of rural Appalachia, Hensley experienced a religious conversion around 1910: on the basis of his interpretation of scripture, he came to believe that the New Testament commanded all Christians to handle venomous snakes.
Snake handling at the Church of God with Signs Following at Lejunior in Harlan County, Kentucky, 15 September 1946 ().Photo by Russell Lee.. 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.
A snake-handling church was the target of a bizarre police raid 76 years ago in North Carolina, historians said. On Nov. 1, 1947, a venomous copperhead snake was seized from Zion Tabernacle Church ...
From "Snake Handling and Redemption", The Art of Fact, Kevin Kerrane, Ben Yagoda, Simon and Schuster, 1998, ISBN 978-0-684-84630-9 "From Salvation on Sand Mountain", The Oxford Book of the American South, Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf, Oxford University Press US, 1997, ISBN 978-0-19-512493-4
The narrator presents various activities the church partakes in, such as snake handling, speaking in tongues, and four- to six-hour-long meetings at the church multiple times a week. The narrators explain that while people are often bitten while handling the snakes, mainly copperheads, they refuse medical help.
The hatching of the 107th tiny, wriggling snake at a Tennessee zoo marks the end of another year of efforts to save one of North America’s rarest snakes from extinction.
Florida — A young man became seriously ill and died as a result of a snake bite while handling a snake during one of George Went Hensley's religious services in Bartow, Florida. Shortly after, the town of Bartow passed a law that banned snake handling. [120] September 25, 1906: Frank Benham, 2, male: Prairie rattlesnake