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LONG BOTTOM, W.Va. —
Religious snake handling is as
much a part of rural southern
West Virginia as coal, poverty
and the crooked roads which
wind through the mountain val
leys.
With the ritual banned in
Kentucky, Tennessee and Virgi
nia, West Virginia has become a
refuge for the fundamentalist
Christians practicing the dan
gerous religious act.
In a little more than a year,
two men have died of snake bites
received during Sunday church
services. The deaths were the
First recorded since 1976, the
same year the U.S. Supreme
Court upheld Tennessee’s ban
on snake handling.
The latest victim was Mack
Wolford, 43, of Phelps, Ky.,
whose Cadillac had a green cob
ra decal on the passenger door.
Wolford died Aug. 28, eight
hours after being bitten on the
left forearm by a yellow rattler
during a service at the Lord
Jesus Temple in Long Bottom, a
tiny town of only a few dozen
people.
Wolford, who previously had
been bitten three times, refused
medical treatment, said Brady
Dawson, minister of the church
and the dead man’s brother-in-
law.
As he lay dying on a mattress
before the altar, members of the
congregation and others from a
nearby church prayed over him
and sang, accompanied by elec
tric guitars and drums.
Dawson, a soft-spoken man
with green eyes and thin black
hair, built the brick church two
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