Participants learnt about snake awareness, behaviour, biology, identification, myths, first aid for snakebite, scorpion sting ...

“Them That Follow,” the Appalachia-set drama about a snake-handling Pentecostal church, features several skin-crawling scenes of rattlesnakes slithering across congregants’ torsos in a bid to prove ...

Three days after pastor Jamie Coots died from a rattlesnake bite at church, mourners leaving the funeral went to the church to handle snakes. Coots, who appeared on the National Geographic Channel's ...

If movies have taught us anything—think Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jungle Book, even Snakes on a Plane—it’s that snakes are not to be trusted. For Christians, it’s a lesson that goes back to the Garden ...

The African Snake Bite Institute hosted an event for both adults and children which involved Snake Awareness, First Aid for Snake Bites, and Venomous Snake Bite Handling Course at the Cradle Moon ...

In a story Feb. 26 about a snake-handling preacher who recently died from a bite, The Associated Press reported erroneously the number of deaths each year from snake bites in the United States. Around ...

For many people, the illegal and deadly ritual that killed a Middlesboro, Ky., pastor is difficult to understand. But professors who study snake handling say worshipers are very aware of the risks ...

A snake-handling pastor who died Saturday in Middlesboro, Ky., once let his finger rot off after a previous snakebite - and he saved the rotten finger in a jar. The Rev. Jamie Coots, pastor since 1994 ...