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Ir is a response to some fundamentalist religous sects known as "snake
handlers." There is a good discussion of this in Paul Finkelman,
Religion and American Law: An Encyclopedia (Garland [now Routledge]
2000, ppp 463-64. Sorry for plugging my own encyclopedia, but it is the
only place I know where anyone has written about this. The entry is by
Willam Ross, who is at Samford University, Cumberland Law School in
Birmingham.
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Paul Finkelman
Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Tulsa College of Law
3120 East 4th Place
Tulsa, OK 74104-3189
918-631-3706 (office)
918-631-2194 (fax)
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> Virginia has a special criminal statute prohiting the reckless
>handling of snakes so as to endanger human life even one's own. Does
>anyone know the background to this statute?
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