Photograph by Bill Snead
Hands Full of TroubleDewy Chafin a preacher in the Church of the Lord Jesus in Jolo, West Virginia holds two fistfuls of rattlesnakes during snake-handling church services in 1991. Dewey has been bit by poisonous snakes over 116 times, treating his wounds only with prayer.
"Thou shalt not put the LORD thy God to the test."
Just wondering if anyone knows if the deadliness of a rattlesnake bite is reduced by the draining or milking of venom before a bite?