Home movie: 000688AWB: 1962 Florida snake handling
Topics: 1962, Florida, tourism, snake handling

This color educational film is an episode of the 'True Adventure' series that features a religious community in Kentucky that performs ecstatic demonstrations of belief with snakes - a so-called "serpent cult". Copyright circa the early 1960s. Snake handling, also called serpent handling, as shown in the show is a religious rite observed in a small number of isolated churches, mostly in the United States. Participants are typically part of the Holiness, Pentecostals, Charismatics, or...
Topics: True Adventure, TV Episode, Serpent, Cult, Louisville, Kentucky, Snakes, Snake Handling, Stock...

This week, a short show due to technical difficulties, we talk about stupid atheists, faith healing, Twitter debacles and snake-handling yahoos.
Topics: PZ Myers, faith healing, Twitter, snake-handling

“If you enjoy something, and you’re passionate about it, you’re going to make something happen with it”. “If you break the wall of ignorance, then interest kicks in. And when interest kicks in, conservation kicks in.” Mark Marshall is known in Port Elizabeth as the local snake handler, and he kindly agreed to have a chat with me in which he reveals a bit about what makes him tick. Topics include: A little bit about Mark, the PE snake park, Bayworld and dolphins, on Mark’s...
Topics: Snakes, snake handling, mark marshall, Sandula Conservation, conservation, Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth

This documentary explores the individual experiences of Pentecostal Christians at the Scrabble Creek Holiness Church, in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia. The documentary includes faith healing, snake handling, speaking in tongues and singing. Margaret Mead was quoted as having called it "one of the best ethnographic films ever made". Pentecostal Christians may also be described as "Charismatic." Pentecostals include Protestant Christians who believe that the...
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Topics: Holy Ghost People, 1967, documentary, religious documentary, Peter Adair, public domain, religious,...