Category: Snakes

Win Bassett: These Signs Shall Follow Them

The Signs Followers of southern Appalachia prefer not to be called “snake-handlers,” but “serpent-handlers”—the Bible’s KJV translation.

Hilda Downer explores why Appalachian musicians place rattlesnake rattles inside instruments. It had to begin before the 1900s, she says.

My intention was to hunt snakes, and I dreamed of coming home with a beautiful and frightening diamondback rattlesnake skin.

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