Editing Snake handling in Christianity (section)

== In popular culture ==
*In the 1992 film ''[[Guncrazy]]'', [[Billy Drago]] plays a small-town preacher who utilizes live snakes in his sermons.{{cn|date=October 2024}}
*In 2013, during the fourth season of [[FX (TV channel)|FX's]] [[Justified (TV series)|''Justified'']], actor [[Joseph Mazzello]] played Preacher Billy,<ref name="yahoo.com">{{Cite web|url=http://yahoo.com/entertainment/news/the-new-preacher-man-on--justified--is-the-little-boy-from--jurassic-park--181246495.html|title=The new preacher man on 'Justified' is the little boy from 'Jurassic Park'|publisher=Yahoo!|date=8 January 2013 }}</ref> a fearless snake handler, who hosted tent revivals in [[Harlan County, Kentucky]].<ref name="yahoo.com"/>
*Gospel singer [[Wendy Bagwell]]'s song "Here Come the Rattlesnakes" describes his Gospel band, [[Wendy Bagwell and the Sunliters]], performing in a small, remote [[Kentucky]] church that practiced rattlesnake handling.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Laugh-Half-Wendy-Bagwell-Sunliters/dp/B00000315W/ref=ntt_mus_dp_dpt_1|title=Laugh & a Half|date=21 January 1994|publisher=Amazon}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_mgrSv79BI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/L_mgrSv79BI| archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=Wendy Bagwell The Rattlesnake Story |last=Proverbs243 |date=22 August 2013 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*In the third episode of the fourth season of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', "[[Homer the Heretic]]", Homer invites bartender [[Moe Szyslak]] to join his religion, to which Moe replies: "Sorry, Homer. I was born a snake handler, and I'll die a snake handler." whilst revealing hands covered in bites, bruises and [[adhesive bandage]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Homer the Heretic |url=http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/9F01.html |website=The Simpsons Archive |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref>
*In the ninth episode of the seventh season of ''[[The X Files]]'', "[[Signs and Wonders (The X-Files)|Signs and Wonders]] ," Scully and Mulder investigate the death of a young man who used to be a member of a serpent-handling church.<ref>{{cite news|last=Silber |first=Kenneth |title=The X-Files – 'Signs and Wonders' |url=http://space.com/sciencefiction/tv/xfiles_709_000124.html |work=[[Space.com]] |publisher=TechMediaNetwork |date=30 June 2000 |access-date=5 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207160939/http://space.com/sciencefiction/tv/xfiles_709_000124.html |archive-date=7 February 2005}}</ref>
*In the fifth episode of the third season of ''[[The Righteous Gemstones]]'' Peter Montgomery is shown using this practice in the church where he preaches.{{cn|date=October 2024}}