To: AnAmericanMother; wagglebee
I attended in my pre-school years a Free Will Primitive Baptist Church that practiced foot-washing and snake handling. They called the snakes canebreak rattlers. Is that the same?
34 posted on
03/05/2007 1:15:54 PM PST by
CholeraJoe
("The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord shall be born as the seventh month dies.")
To: CholeraJoe; AnAmericanMother
I'm not a snake expert, ask these guys.
38 posted on
03/05/2007 1:24:42 PM PST by
wagglebee
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To: CholeraJoe
"Canebrake," because the snakes were found in sugarcane fields.
40 posted on
03/05/2007 1:31:19 PM PST by
Tax-chick
(Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.)
To: CholeraJoe
Canebrake rattlers,
Crotalus horridus atricaudatus are the same as timber rattlers.
They aren't as placid as the diamondbacks, but maybe there weren't any diamondbacks to be had . . . or maybe your church was livin' on the edge . . .
95 posted on
03/05/2007 2:32:06 PM PST by
AnAmericanMother
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