Snake handler
- Thread starter Wildcats1st
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It's not a shot. It's an infusion.
And even with antivenom treatment, there can still be tremendous pain in the area of the bite.
I was watching a snake documentary, it said a dose of anti-venom is $5k per vile and can need up to 20 doses on average.
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anon_q409idbs5m40a
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You just described Sunday mornings as I was growing up in the '60's and '70's. Some of these preachers had their own radio show and they would work themselves up into frenzies on air while talking so fast that they were gasping for breath.
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anon_q409idbs5m40a
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I've been Methodist all my life and never saw that but I would not put anything past churches in the backwoods.
It is a joke from John Boy and Billy
..I think it was Pinkard and Bowden...one said "I am from so far back in the Sticks that that the Methodist handle snakes in church where I come from.".
Not serious. I think it is funny. By the way I'm from Western Kentucky. Not sure snake handling was ever big here.
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anon_q409idbs5m40a
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I still would not put anything past a church in the backwoods, regardless of denomination. When I was growing up one could really not tell the difference between Methodist and Baptist when it came to country churches. I was raised by my Grandmother until she died when I was 12. She was a very conservative, religious woman who was at the church every time the doors were opened. Of course, I had to go as well and I've been to more funerals, weddings, revivals, prayer meetings and last rites than I care to remember. The worst times were when the tent revivals came to town and I was stuck there for an entire week.
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anon_q409idbs5m40a
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I remember John Boy and Billy; been a while but those are names out of the past.
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anon_q409idbs5m40a
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I guess you witnessed the "testimonies" as well. Some people would get really emotional and wound up while doing that.