Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Religious practices

Will you come up before it is too late?

He drew Hell. He had agonized faces of poor sinners who were on fire. There were demons who were tormenting. This would go on for ETERNITY.

This was the only federal conviction in the hundreds of brutal assaults on Jehovah’s Witnesses that swept America in 1941.

He put it around Johnny’s shoulder. The snake crawled down Johnny’s arm. The large rattlesnake struck Johnny on the right hand.

The older Washington District family of churches fell into doctrinal discord, which in 1924 split the No-Heller side from the Heller side.

Her religious feelings overcame her so that she shook and rolled, thereby throwing those present at the service into a state of alarm.

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