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This color educational film is an episode of the 'True Adventure' series that features a religious community in Kentucky that performs ecstatic demonstrations of belief with snakes - a so-called "serpent cult". Copyright circa the early 1960s. Snake handling, also called serpent handling, as shown in the show is a religious rite observed in a small number of isolated churches, mostly in the United States. Participants are typically part of the Holiness, Pentecostals, Charismatics, or other evangelical movements. At least one of the persons shown in the film, serpent handler Lee Valentine, died from snake venom. The practice of snake handling is still exercised in the USA, although some of the most controversial practices, such as drinking snake venom, have been abandoned. (In Kentucky at least, snake handling is now forbidden and subject to fines.)
Opening titles: Bill Burrud presents True Adventure (:08). Bill Burrud speaks and introduces the episode (:33). People in the Rella church hold snakes and get very close to flames (:56). Bill Burrud speaks (1:32). Louisville, KY (2:10). Outside of Louisville, KY (2:28). Serpent cult of Kentucky (3:03). "Serpent Cult" congregates (3:37). Lee Valentine, a higher up in this cult, dances and moves (4:03). Members dance and clap (4:30). A girl in a hypnotic trance (5:07). Build up to working themselves up into a frenzy (5:40). Cult members dance, clap, play the guitar (6:10). A man plays with fire (7:17). A man holds a flame against his skin (7:41). A man holds a blowtorch (8:01). Men talk with one another (8:51). Members of the cult dance and prepare for the snakes (9:33). The girl in the trance wanders (10:00). Poisonous snakes are removed in crates from a station wagon (10:42). Snakes in crates are carried over (11:00). Snakes are removed from the crates (11:24). A man raises a snake (11:34). A man places snakes on his head (11:47). People pass snakes around and place them on their bodies (11:56). People sway as other hold snakes (12:34). People wrap snakes around their necks (13:15). Snakes are held in the hands of the worshippers (14:00). A man opens a rattlesnake's mouth (14:25). A woman convulses while holding a snake (14:30). Crowd move and dance as people hold the snakes (15:00). People bow before the snakes and those in control of the ceremony (15:28). A man blesses a little girl (16:01). Children dance (16:28). People watch and clap (16:44). A man holds poisonous snakes close to his face (16:56). People transfer snakes from one person to another (17:19). A snake is removed from a box (17:53). Men raise snakes up high (18:04). Worshippers shake as they hold snakes, in a trance doing a dance (18:28). A man who is bitten is lead away; late he dies from the snake bite (18:53). Children hold snakes (19:18). People continue to pass the snakes to one another (19:46). A woman does a bizarre dance (20:15). The police have shown up; having these snakes is illegal and dangerous (20:31). Men of the cult preach on (20:45). Police confiscate the snakes (21:01). The police start to arrest devotees (21:31). Police get into their vehicles (22:03). Snake worshippers leave (22:25). End credits (22:38).
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Негізгі бет TRUE ADVENTURE TV EPISODE " SERPENT CULT " LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY SNAKE HANDLING CHURCH XD14364
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