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Religious Movements: Snake Handlers  - http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/Snakes.html  Discussion of the beliefs and history of serpent handling religion in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, as well as legal and other issues associated with the practice.  Snake Handlers and the Law  - http://members.tripod.com/Yeltsin/law/law.htm  Information about laws applicable to religious snake handling in several Appalachian jurisdictions.  Snake Handlers  - http://www.les.appstate.edu/courses/appalachia/religion/snake.htm  Discussion of the religious beliefs and worship practices of groups that practice serpent handling, including the history of these traditions.  Snake Handling  - http://www.cincinnatiskeptics.org/blurbs/snake-handling.html  Skeptics' analysis of the practice of snake handling, including the scriptural basis and an explanation of why participants are seldom bitten.  Snake Handling in the Pentecostal Church: The Precedent Set by George Hensley  - http://www.english.vt.edu/~appalach/essaysS/snakes.htm  Student paper on the origins of snake handling religious traditions.  Augusta Chronicle: Taking Up Serpents  - http://www.augustachronicle.com/headlines/062996/062996serpent.html  Article about an incident in which a pastor was bitten and hospitalized also includes an overview of the Holiness snake-handling movement.  If God Was a Rattlesnake, Would You Pick it Up?  - http://www.ralphmag.org/snake.html  Review of the book 'Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia' and general discussion of the practice.  Snake Handling  - http://www.geocities.com/alanstreett/snakehan.html  Brief history of the practice and its theological basis, by Dr. R. Alan Streett.  Taking Up Serpents: A History of Snake Handling  - http://www.mupress.org/webpages/books/kimbrough.html  Publisher's synopsis of a scholarly book about the practice, by David Kimbrough.  Sound Portraits: John Brown, Jr., Serpent Handler  - http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/serpent_handler/  Radio documentary recording the words of a preacher who later died from a snake bite. Includes audio file and transcript.