Although the guy who started it all had been a Baptist before he became a Pentacostal.
The practice of handling snakes in worship began in 1909, when a Baptist named George Hensley joined a Pentecostal fellowship near Cleveland, Tenn. The result was a fiery revivalism that combined a rock-ribbed view of the Bible with a Pentecostal emphasis on signs and wonders. Hensley died of a snake bite in 1955.
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http://www.english.vt.edu/~appalach/essaysS/snakes.htm
http://www.rickross.com/reference/snake/snake1.html
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:g6dg9-51DRgJ:purgatorio1.blogspot.com/2005/12/gone-but-not-forgotten-vi-george-w.html+%22snake+handling%22++pentacostal&hl=fr&gl=fr&ct=clnk&cd=8&lr=lang_en
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http://www.astralresearch.org/mysticalmovieguide/mmlist.pl?find=brief&master=1&genre1=doc&index=1
http://cargo.ship-of-fools.com/Bulletin/UngodlyFear/90/90/10.html