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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.
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.
Jolo (pronounced "Joe-Lowe") is an unincorporated community on West Virginia Route 83 in McDowell County in the U.S. state of West Virginia.The community was mentioned in the book Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington for being the home of the Church of the Lord Jesus with Signs Following, a renowned snake handling church.
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 ...
He was a third-generation snake handler whose father Gregory Coots was the pastor of Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus' Name. [2] The church was founded in 1978 by his grandfather Tommy Coots. Jamie's son Cody Coots is now the pastor. [citation needed] Jamie Coots began handling snakes at age 23. He worked primarily as a truck driver for a mine. [3]
Cody Coots, a pastor at one of America's last snake-handling churches, is bitten on the ear by a rattlesnake in a shocking video.
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 son of a snake-handling preacher who died from a poisonous snake bite just months ago was bitten by an even bigger rattlesnake. "Cody Coots said he followed his father's advice to not panic ...