Animism has been around for as long as humans have existed, THEREFORE it can be called a basic human tendency. Don't try to tell me that it only became a problem with the pentecostal movement that started in the early 20th century. One of your sources says this: " The earliest roots of the snake-handlers can be traced further back to strict Calvinists, who were among the early English and Scotch-Irish settlers colonizing the Appalachian area." So I was correct in that it started in the Baptist church AND in the south. But so WHAT! Are you going to use this as a club to beat pentecostalism over its collective head? And if so, then WHY? I can use Calvinistic doctrine to do the same to Baptists, but who would profit and who would be better for it?

There are all kinds of critics of pentecostalism because it is such an obvious target. Magical thinking and superstition have been a problem in church doctrine ever since the church has existed, and will be till the end of time. Whether you agree or not, it IS a basic human tendency and you cannot prove that it ISN'T.

All I asked is that we be not so quick to lay it on others and that we try a little introspection before we decide to attack someone else.