[Tennessee Nana]

And it’s not the Pentecostals...

[ansel12]

I forgot about Wiki, I just checked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_handling

[nicmarlo]

Well...according to this, though, it is:

Snake handling is a religious ritual in a small number of pentecostal churches in the U.S., usually characterized as rural and Holiness. Practitioners believe it dates to antiquity and quote the Book of Mark and the Book of Luke to support the practice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_handling