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Subject:	Re: snakes
From:	Paul Finkelman <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sun, 2 May 2004 13:25:17 -0500
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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
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Tulsa, OK   74104-3189

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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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