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» CBS News: Woman Dies After Snakebite In Church, Kentucky Woman Killed After Being Bitten During Serpent-Handling Service
   Linda Long, 48, died after being bitten by a snake during a serpent-handling service at church in London, Kentucky. Handling reptiles as part of religious services is illegal in the state.
   http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/07/national/main2161165.shtml

» If God Was a Rattlesnake, Would You Pick it Up?
   Review of the book 'Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia' and general discussion of the practice.
   http://www.ralphmag.org/snake.html

» New Georgia Encyclopedia: Snake Handlers
   Article on the practice, with photo and bibliography.
   http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1581

» Serpent Handling at Jolo, West Virginia and the Legitimacy of the Marcan Appendix
   Article by Howard Dorgan.
   http://www.library.appstate.edu/appcoll/manuscript/coll116/serpent.html

» Snake Handlers Hang On in Appalachian Churches
   Article by Brian Handwerk for National Geographic.
   http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0407_030407_snakehandlers.html

» Snake Handlers and the Law
   Information about laws applicable to religious snake handling in several Appalachian jurisdictions.
   http://members.tripod.com/Yeltsin/law/law.htm

» Snake Handling
   Skeptics' analysis of the practice of snake handling, including the scriptural basis and an explanation of why participants are seldom bitten.
   http://www.cincinnatiskeptics.org/blurbs/snake-handling.html

» Snake Handling Pentecostal Sects
   Collection of news articles related to snake handling.
   http://www.rickross.com/groups/snake.html

» Snakebite Kills Preacher: Should Snake Handlers Be Subject to Prosecution?
   Snakebite kills local preacher and the press asks, Should snake handlers be subject to prosecution?
   http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/ep/snake_bite.htm

» Sound Portraits: John Brown, Jr., Serpent Handler
   Radio documentary recording the words of a preacher who later died from a snake bite. Includes audio file and transcript.
   http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/serpent_handler/

» Wikipedia: Church of God with Signs Following
   Article about the Pentecostal holiness churches which practice snake handling.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_God_with_Signs_Following