Years ago when my brother and I hiked the Appalachian Trial, on the way back from being picked up at Fontana Dam, we stopped at this little, and I mean little church on the side of the road. The pastor invited us in and it turned out to be a serpent handling church, I believe they're Pentecostal? Very nice guy, we had fun talking with him and of course he broke out a rattle snake showed us how it's done! His flock had diminished greatly through the years, there were only 8-10 members left. I got to hold the rattler, at the time back at my house , I had a 14 foot Burmese Python, so a little rattle snake was nothing! Lol. :)