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Pollock C. Snake handling and restraint. Sep 29, LafeberVet Web site. Login Register Home. Date: Sep. DO recognize aggression or fear in the snake, indicated by the body held in rigid coils or drawn up in an S-shaped posture. DO use assistants when handling large snakes. DO NOT allow a boa or python to form a complete loop around your neck. DO utilize slow, gentle movements and provide adequate support when handling a snake. DO wear disposable gloves, whenever possible, and always wash hands thoroughly after handling a snake.
To continue you need to be a LafeberVet. L'inscription est gratuite. Inscrivez-vous maintenant. Para continuar, debe ser miembro de LafeberVet. Para Profesionales Veterinarios. Hamblin helped officiate at his funeral, an emotional affair that attracted national media attention and serpent handlers from several states. They wanted to pay their respects to someone who had rejected medical intervention and died while practicing the signs—the ultimate form of faithfulness to the Gospel of Mark.
I am the shepherd, and I am responsible for what happens in this building. For generations, serpent-handling Pentecostals have captured their own snakes—mostly timber and canebrake rattlesnakes, plus the occasional diamondback rattlesnake , cottonmouth, or copperhead that inhabit the Southeast. Handlers usually keep their animals in terrariums or cages in sheds, feeding them live mice about once a week.
But the animals are often treated poorly, according to Kristen Wiley of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo , which sometimes ends up caring for—or euthanizing—weak and dehydrated snakes confiscated from Pentecostal handlers. But the more one handles, the greater the likelihood of bites. Rattlesnake venom, which contains hemo- and neurotoxins, induces numbness and swelling, blurred vision, paralysis, and respiratory failure.
It destroys skin tissue and blood cells, leading to internal hemorrhage. Victims can survive if they receive antivenom within two hours, but without medicine, death can occur within six to 48 hours. Now, says Ralph Hood, a University of Tennessee professor who specializes in the psychology of religion and has long studied serpent handlers, refusing to call is considered by some to be old school, and pragmatism rules.
Yes, the Gospel of Mark encourages serpent handling, say younger pastors, but no verse forbids seeking help for serious bites. During a June church service, Coots had draped a timber rattlesnake, as thick as a soda can, halfway down his back as congregants shouted and a piano tinkled.
But after he shifted the snake toward his chest, the reptile lunged at his head, striking the artery near his right temple. With blood spurting over his pale blue shirt, Coots wilted into the arms of his friends, one of whom, according to Hood, asked Coots if he was ready to die. No, Coots said. Helicoptered to a hospital in Knoxville, he was put on life support and eventually recovered. Everything came to a halt as the year-old collapsed, his lips and tongue swelling until he could barely breathe.
It had been seven years—almost to the day—since his older brother, Randy, had been bitten by a yellow timber rattlesnake while conducting a revival at a state park in West Virginia.
Refusing to call for an ambulance, he took about 10 hours to die. After 13 days and multiple surgeries on his arm, Wolford was released. I know a lot of good brothers and sisters who say that when they die, they want to die [while practicing] the signs of the Gospel. In Kentucky, snake handlers conduct baptisms in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Farther south, pastors baptize only in the name of Jesus.
They are called Oneness Pentecostals , and they are more likely to call for help in an emergency. But Hood, at the University of Tennessee, believes something has been lost in the compromise. Andrew Hamblin is now 29 and pastoring, occasionally with snakes, at the Free Pentecostal House of Prayer in the tiny hamlet of Gray, in southeastern Kentucky. He divorced his wife in , leaving her with six children, and started a new family with a second wife.
Unsurprisingly, he welcomes those whom other churches might shun. Ditto with remarriage. But he reminded his congregation, through a video posted to YouTube, that the shouting, the praising, and the snake boxes would return.
Recall that Hamblin had, earlier, broken a major taboo by allowing his services to be filmed. The reality show riled many old-time handlers, who felt the program commercialized their beliefs. A typical performance may also include handling the snakes or performing other seemingly dangerous acts, as well as other street performance staples, like juggling and sleight of hand. The practice is most common in India , though other Asian nations such as Bangladesh , Sri Lanka , Thailand , and Malaysia are also home to performers, as are the North African countries of Egypt , Morocco and Tunisia.
Ancient Egypt was home to one form of snake charming, though the practice as it exists today likely arose in India. Despite a sort of golden age in the 20th century , snake charming is today in danger of dying out.
This is due to a variety of factors, chief among them the recent enforcement of a law in India banning ownership of serpents. In retaliation, snake charmers have organised in recent years, protesting the loss of their only means of livelihood, and the government has made some overtures to them.
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