The Jolo Serpent Handlers | Documentary about Serpent-Handling Church in West Virginia | Full Movie
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2023
- Focusing on a small serpent-handling church in West Virginia, this film is an in-depth portrait that not only shows two fascinating serpent-handling services but answers many of the questions that viewers have about religion and people.
Stars: Dewey Chafin
Directed by Karen Kramer
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Their music is incredible! Like Rockabilly mixed with Psychedelic Garage
Very 👍 true
I’m from Logan WV. I used to work in Jolo back in the 90’s. These are the greatest people on Earth. The most honest and hardworking people you’ll ever meet. I recently moved to the state of New Jersey. I’d feel a million times safer in a church full of snakes with these people than in any public place in NJ. That’s the TRUTH.
Nothing worse than "human snakes"!
I'm from NJ. We would love for you to move back to your state.
@@easypeasy5219 Thanks for validating my point. Nothing like good ole northern hospitality. 😘
@@johndardi1334 sorry you can't fit into civilization hick. You obviously weren't raised right by your parents.
Very interesting comment! I am sure people in WV have a much better attitude than New Jersey people. NJ & NY ...not exactly barrels of laughs.
Say whatever one wants. Their Music was Slap Jamming...!
It's pretty impressive!
I sure miss going to church . Hopefully God will make a way for me to get to a church . My situation was s keeping me from going. Please remember me in your prayers.
I will pray for you
Rock and roll rattle snakes, wow
@@lowelljohnson2082 those churches are no joke . There’s been a lot of men die because of snake bites . They believe if your truly living in Gods will nothing will harm you . But if you get bit by the snake and die then your living out of Gods will . So that’s why it is so important to know better when picking up a snake .
OK, just don't be a fool that plays with "THE DEVIL".
Prayers
I find it interesting that one young lady said she had to give up rock-'n'-roll music......Dang! These folks got the boss rock-'n'-roll!!!! ✝️📿
I love these people and miss them terribly! They were wonderful and loving, Godly people with a heart of gold. They were the best folks to know! They were the salt of the earth! Most all of them are gone now including my grandparents. I sure miss them something awful.
That's all great and wonderful, it really is, but their interpretation of Mark 16:18 is dead wrong. Their error has led to injury, death, and suffering for family & friends left behind. Anyone who believes Mark 16 permits snake handling is in bondage.
Yes, absolutely wonderful people unfortunately most will never understand that. Me and you do tho don’t we.
Amen!
Where are the people they have layed hands on and been healed
@@marvinrobinson5448🤣🤣
Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s was the best ever. I was born in 55 and am 68 now. Of all the decades I have lived, the 60’s and 70’s was the best. Before technology took over young minds. Before they buried their faces in their phones, we ran around outside on bikes, in the woods and creeks. Kids miss so much now. Neighborhood kids…many many of them gathered in the street of the suberbs and we played all day until the street lights came on. We were social and knew how to play and laugh.
I grew up in Charleston about the same time
Man, that's some great psychedelic rock music there!....I was expecting bluegrass, or "mountain music"...
That guy at the 3 min mark handles serpents alright!
Tube snakes! 😂
One eyed trousers snakes
Wild and wonderful mcdowell county
I wonder how this practice would work if one were to use Black Mambas instead of rattlers and copperheads?....
Each year the congregation gets smaller for some strange reason
Hmm......
Must be them thar' Snakes!
Maybe Som-O-Dat Strychnine Drinkin'.
Maybe..........
Some Fire-Handling?
Hmm...........
imagine my surprise
Because they all were in the 90's and 100's. No one lives forever but God and those who enter heaven with him. Those who enter hell are alive forever but in a different way and in torment forever.
And the Australian chapter didn't last long for some reason
@@sharonrigs7999 😂
These preachers spend lots of time playing Russian Roulette.
Wow how strange this all is
I've been an Atheist for decades. More on the Agnostic/Secular/Humanistic side rather than a devout Atheist since I can't prove that God doesn't exist, nor have I ever met anyone who can prove God's existence, but I will admit that some of you God believers can be really nice and awesome people. I just don't understand why anyone feels they need this God character at all?
All of these snakes are highly venomous
The guitars and singing would make me want to immediately leave this earth for heaven. Can you imagine listening to this if you were seriously ill?
Thanks for the upload. Just love the look and feel of this documentary. Ya know that 70’s thing. But ya know these people are crazy, God bless’em. And they’re still at it. Still at it in Appalachia. Just crazy.
They’re almost as crazy as the Scientologists.
Wow, the music is just awesome. Hope I ´ll get the chance to see a serpent handling church service one day! Thanks for the upload, amazing...
Why the hell would anyone want to?
They all say ...
I quit drankin
I quit cocaine.
But this adrenaline i get with the snkaes and the local fame of being a "godly man/woman" is way better and people dont judge me cause im not drankin or doing my cocaine.
Im a Christian but i aint holding no snakes or drinking poison,you dont have to go to such extremes to show faith in God.
These extreme religions are nothing but a bunch of Bible thumping Jesus freaks.
I'm from Kentucky I have known snake worshippers but non in this video they told me I don't have the faith to pickup a snake but if I did I'd be blessed how.in the he'll would I blessed bit by.a snake these people need to be jailed for this and the snakes 🐍 taken away by the law
Follow Jesus..... He never danced around with serpents ????
When he spoke of serpents he was refering to "evil" not literal snakes !
Exactly what I was thinking.
Yes that, and False doctrine is how I feel it was discerned for me. But, these people say " no handling snakes, no getting into heaven." If that is the criteria, I assume I'm not going to be with the Lord. However, that thinking destroys the Gospel Message I feel.😢😭
Not only are they Gods people…some are very talented on instruments etc….these people seem GENUINE
These are not God’s people. None of this is of God.
parseltongue dance party...yes the musicianship is great.
I know where Jolo is! Think they’d let me visit to observe? I’m a Traditional Catholic. I won’t be handling any snakes or drinking poison! I’ve got no problem praying for the sick, singing the old timey hymns, or shouting, but I wouldn’t be falling over and having convulsions! Their concept of worship is very different from the Catholic meaning, so dancing wouldn’t be a problem for me, either.
You would have to have an "in". They don't really utilize a central house of worship anymore because of unwanted attention. Instead they hold services in people's homes
If you feel drawn to this The spirit could be calling you to handling them.
If you find a church house, I'm sure they'd welcome you
Looks like a hec of a good time -- until they pull out the rattlesnakes and the fire ! Lol. 😮
I’m Catholic as well and this is not of God. The bible said not to test the Lord.
Snake handling is a wrong interpretation of Mark 16:18. Christians who purposefully and literally handle venomous snakes are in _disobedience to God's word._ This man has been bitten 68 times in 20 years. It should take only one snake bite to prove they are wrong about these verses, which say "it will not hurt them at all." Yet they have been hurt. Why aren't they also drinking deadly poison in church as verse 18 says? These verses are _metaphors_ promising God's protection in difficult circumstances. This church's approach to these verses is wrong on many levels. Verse 18 doesn't _ask_ or _command_ anyone to purposefully pick up "deadly serpents," it only says "and when they do." These people are deceived.
AMEN! Also, how on earth can God's will be the devil's work? That statement alone shows deceptive teaching.
They focus on Mark 16 but don't follow what Jesus said. "Do not tempt the Lord your God". This is indeed a metaphor and God will hold you and protect you.
bruh theres also churches where they do the snake stuff and also drink strychnine which makes them speak in tounges because of the "high" the poison gives them lmao
The oldest existent texts of Mark don’t contain 16:18. The passage was added later, likely by a scribe. Scholars note that even the language is different.
@@ericlewis4674 Correct, yet it is controversial among those much smarter & more learned than me about these verses being written & included. Their genuineness is really not vitally important to this matter anyway, as this practice is wrong on so many levels. I pity that I have brothers & sisters in Jesus who are so deceived, but I too have been deceived about many things.
Bit 68 times? Holy snake handling Batman. Usually the more bit the worse it gets
Some people build up an immunity to poison the more they are exposed. Something like losing your allergy to bee stings.
Dewey chafins was bitten over 100 times
@@stephenaddair just amazing
@@stephenaddairSeriously? Lord have mercy!
Like the guy who got struck by lightning 67 times in "The Great Outdoors"....
Looks like aunt pearl there! I am related to Randy Wolford tht passed
That church was having a good time whats the issue? Good music everyone is in the spirit.
In what spirit "A" spirit not THE spirit.
"The issue" is their interpretation of Mark 16:18 is wrong. This wrong belief has led to, and will continue to lead to, needless injury, suffering and death, not to mention danger for anyone around during their practice of snake handling.
@@crooked-halo They deserved it....
And you have to understand although they are sincere in their beliefs, they can be sincerely wrong. The people in these communities are not well educated, and believe the pastors. They live in their sheltered lives, and have very little outside opinions about the Bible. It's like the people in Africa, who believe in witch doctors. They truly believe in this practice, but have no education to question the practices they see in their everyday life. If everyone around you practices a certain way, and you know nothing else, you will continue to live in this lifestyle. It's sad. They think if they question this practice, their salvation is in question.
Stay away from the deadly trouser snake.
These people believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water and all sorts of magical absurd and primitive stories!
Don’t try to figure out Bible thumping Jesus freaks.
The first mention of serpents in the Bible is in Genesis. It didn’t turn out well. Why would some one pick one up on purpose.
test of faith try this with mamba or king cobra
Er.....try a tipan an aussy snake most venomous land snake in the world ....er we have 10 most generous snaked in the world a king brown ...dead within half hour ....sometimes minutes .
If you read the books on the serpent handlers, you’ll read they’ve handled those serpents also. Although cotton mouths and timber rattlers are fairly mean.
It would just thin the congregation sooner or make them believe in other ways.
The Almighty would REALLY have to be protecting anybody that tried handling any of those types of Snakes!
@@LelandPresley88, yes sure! Kkkkk
I grew up less than a mile from this church..never went though...my dad was terrified of snakes...lol
This video is probably over 50 years old.
👍👍👌
Somewheres close, anyway. You can tell by the way that they dressed back then, and even the styles of glasses that some of them wore. I saw one Beautiful Young Lady earlier in this video, wearing a pair of Horn-Rimmed Glasses. She was still Very Beautiful! Had herself one of those Bee-Hive Hairdos, too. She was also one other thing:Dressed MODESTLY! Her Dress wasn't one of these ol' tight, form-fitting Dresses. She dressed Holy!
As for the Snake-Handling, and the Strychnine-Drinking, and the Fire-Handling? No, thanks! That's not for me! The rest of it, though?
I'm Old-Order Pentecostal, so I can deal with that!
@@ronaldshank7589 I thought there were some cute ladies there as well. And as you say you can tell by the dress and accessories that this was awhile ago. Brings back memories of my family church revivals in S Ohio ( minus the snakes )
@@ronaldshank7589I’m cool with the snakes, it’s the other stuff I’m not really about. I don’t think the gospel of Mark was talking about dancing with the snakes either. 😂
@@ScotchIrishHoundsman I'd rather take a swim in an ice-cold lake,
instead of handlin' one o' dem ol' ugly snakes!
They'll do the twist and turn, with all of their might,
and then they'll slither, and turn, and give ya a bite!
So.....
Just you watch out now, for them ol'
poison fangs,
or else, the next thing ya know, ya could be feelin' death's pangs!
They'll do the twist REAL QUICK, 'n' but the bite on you,
& then the next thing ya know.....
yer life will be..........
Through!
See thar'?!? I'm a poet.... & I know it!
the more fringe the beliefs, the better the music.
What year was this film made?
1977
I saw Bucky, Deanna, and Violet.
A fundamentalist rock concert, with serpents for a mosh pit.
I think I see Sister Barbara Elkins in this
music was good
they have twisted the scriptures and the music is definitely honky-tonkish, but i do believe that they believe they are doing right and really want to serve the lord. (sigh)
Looks like a good party-- until they bring out the serpents and fire ! Lol 😮
Something tells me the guy talking @2:52 aint just handled snakes with scales 😂.
You got that right 😂🤣
@@MordechaiBen613 sounds like Herbert the pervert on family guy.
..you think he has any $2.00 bills in his pockets?...
He's on the wrong bus
I'm a Christian, and the way I read the book of Mark is they were talking to a particular person, or group of people at that time. To take up serpents. Not for every God fearing Christian to do that. I mean If that's your belief then that's fine. It's all your personnel relationship with God is what matters.
I live in southern wv. Knew most of these folks, though I never handled no snake!
A black rattler is a dark version of a timber rattler as is a “ yellow “ rattler
Nothing compares to the canebrake rattler.
@@allen480 same snake
It's a phase during shedding and snakes are more aggressive and can't see good right ?
Been bitten by a rattlesnake (between the eyes!) and survived. I went to the hospital because of difficulty breathing but I survived. I’ve handled serpents since. I’m a Holiness Pentecostal pastor and I’m never giving up the tenets of my faith. The Five Signs ✝️
Where do you pastor?
So show you wouldn’t survive without go to the hospital. Kkkkkkk so God isn’t protect you so your religion is wrong.
They shall cast out demons and take away serpents, MOST HIGH cursed the serpent, so that every man that sees him shall thump his head, you need to read the Hebrew Bible brother, the correct translation is not take up, it is take away serpents, if you love our LORD CHRIST JESUS then you will know his truth when you hear it, in all sincerity with love, Peace in CHRIST JESUS to you.
Kind to the late Harvey Payne...I did not take after my kin!!!
Before, and many years after the KJV was printed, the GENEVA BIBLE was the People's Choice, but an ungodly King (James) made it illegal to publish it any longer. These poor people are so misled. They should search the scriptures, starting with the English translation of the Bible that preceded King James.....the Geneva Bible, which was not influenced by Catholicism. Mark 16:18 "and they shall TAKE AWAY serpents"....Geneva Bible.
How sad that many of their loved ones and friends have died because of the mistranslation of one word.
These pastors do not have any formal education.
pessoas loucas ou ate com certos problemas mentais ,..nao há outra forma de justificar tal acontecimento,.. e q por vezes acaba mal ,...
Yo manejo serpientes en la Iglesia
Oddly metal.
witchy had a friend got bit by a garter snake glory!
thanks God for protecting me from everything
thank God I had level head parents that kept me away from things like this.
He didn’t have to through the snake up in the air.
You play with fire u get burnt 😮
It doesnt say venomous serpents
Snakes are not dirty and people who handle them are asking for trouble.
If I have to take up serpents in this flesh I guss I'm on the highway to hell.😮
They must put the snakes in a freezer to make them lethargic or something. If those are wild caught snakes they'd be biting the hell out of them
No they wont do.
They are really wild caught snakes. I used to have neighbors that was in a church that did this snake handling and drinking Strychnine. Thank goodness they moved.
They way these snakes are handled if done correctly the snakes dont have a position to lunch forward and bite compared to when they are on the ground.
The snakes are almost starved to death. They all die in captivity, as he said, they won't eat. They probably have wits enough not to play with the fresh ones that still have a lot of energy, and use only the ones that have been in a box for a while.
I might go to church if they stopped bringing their damn snakes
from the music I say they are f up as hell.
snake minding its own business.
And satin said to Jesus, throw yourself off this mountain. And what did Jesus say???
I wonder if these people were/are Oneness or Trinitarian?
I think one ess
I believe "the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost". I say let them practice their religion as they believe.
People on here are making rude comments. They, themselves, need help.
Oneness
Ei cred ca sunt intro biserica dar acolo sau adunat nebunii din tinut sa danseze .Saracii serpi mie mila de ei
This is pure craziness. These people are almost as nuts as the Scientologists.
This is a form of witchcraft
Does anyone notice in 3:00 in the video there a guy is gay im very surprised the church except being gay back then i know because im gay back then it was taboo 😂😂
These people are nuts. None of this stuff they’re doing is of God. Also that passage about speaking in different tongues, I’m pretty sure the bible meant spreading the gospel in other legit languages, not just blah blah rah rah jah jah…
Poor ignorant people😢
🤣🤣
"DELIVERANCE" comes to mind@@Kerfufflekitten
I wonder how many in this crowd would have pissed HOT on a drug test?!!!☝️🙄
Don't temp the lord thy God
West Virginia is the only place where is legal to practice curling serpents all the other states it’s illegal but they do it and people tend to look the other way and don’t ever tell him but if they get caught they get in a lot of trouble also in West Virginia you have to be 18 years old before you can handle a snake and you have to want to do it nobody will force you to do it
They are taking that scripture out of context\ I can't believe that all these years SOMEONE didn't read the complete chapter. Those things were given to the few people who went out to preach the gossipal right after Jesus went back to heaven. There weren't a lot of people to go out so for a season Gon protected the few that went. It had nothing to do with their faith, it was just to protect them. God stopped this when more people became christains
I wonder what those snakes are thinking
“I should have found a better hiding place”….WTF!
The original texts of Mark do not contain 16:18. The last 12 verses were added later, likely by a scribe. The language is clearly very different from the rest of the gospel.
A poorly fed snake kept in a cold bare box is unlikely to have the strength to attack anyone
One thing I notice in all these different church snake videos are the snakes look docile and sick, but still dangerous!!!
I doubt Dewey would agree with you.😄
The trick is that these snakes are never fed at all. They die in this churches care. By the time they "take up the serpent" these poor snakes are half dead. If you watch really close you can even see one that IS dead. It's head is flopped upside down.
This is just animal abuse...
Yeah, they're a lot more careful when they're catching them! LOL.
The poor children
These pastors don't go to a seminary to become pastors, they are ordained within the church community. There is no formal Bible education. New pastors are the sons of former pastors. They might have good intentions, but people need educated leaders.
Nope
They are educated, learning from watching , doing and listening is another way of being educated. The University of life.
The. Holy Ghost is all that is needed
Wrong .holy ghost is the teacher .school makes you a student of man , mans ways and opinions, far from gods .God pics the paastors and preacher's , not some school or levels of education
No way! The Apostles didn’t go to seminary!
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. [2 PETER 3.16;] (This is NOT Christian faith! - "Taking up serpents" means DEALING WITH LIARS /SLANDERERS/TRAITORS, okay, beloved brethren, Amen. DIVIDE RIGHTLY, henceforth, in JESUS CHRIST'S [the LORD] name, Amen; 1 CORINTHIANS 13.13; 14.12; EPHESIANS 4.12; 2 TIMOTHY 2.15; 13:16-17; JUDE 1.22-23; etc. HalleluYAH! Shalom! 💪💖🌈🙌🙏
I’ve been a devout Christian all my life and have read the Bible more times than I can remember. But this is insane. Get the congregation all pumped up on music and think it’s somehow God’s Devine spirit. Handling a venomous snake is simply idiotic. Not to be THAT guy but these people don’t strike me as being very smart.
Those verses in Mark do not say that every single believer will do everything listed.
That's ridiculous.
At any rate Jesus is Lord God Almighty clothed in unsinful humanity and He is the author of eternal life to all who trust Him alone for salvation.
Jesus paid for all the sins of all the world at the cross (past, present, and future). That payment is put to your account when you have believed on Christ alone for salvation.
*This means that saving repentance is realizing that you are a sinner deserving of God's just punishment in Hell and turn (repent) from whatever you trusted in before, if indeed you trusted in anything; to trusting in the person and finished work of Christ alone for salvation.*
Mark 16 WAS NEVER in the original manuscripts of the Synoptic Gospels of the Apostles. NEVER did Yeshua the Messiah ever tell ANYONE to do this stupid crazy demonic things. Anytime He spoke of serpents in the Gospels He spoke of the Pharisees as serpents and in people facing evil times and people. NEVER was this anything He said a Scribe centuries later added this to the gospels. GET EDUCATED PEOPLE!!! Stupidity is not a gift from ADONAI.
its meant metaphorically these people dont get that.
Yes, it's inclusion in the canon is controversial to this day, but even if it is part of Mark, they are interpreting the words incorrectly. It's a metaphor, not to be taken literally. Why aren't they also drinking deadly poison in church?!
@@crooked-haloIn a lot of these Snake-Handling "Churches", they do drink deadly poison, in the form of Strychnine. They also handle Fire.
They're easily some of the most dangerous psychos, that we've ever heard of! Satan works through these people, unfortunately. Proverbs 14:12, & Proverbs 16:25 both tell us the same thing, word for word:"There is a way that seemeth right unto a Man, but the end thereof, are the ways of death!
You are correct, the whole deal is blasphamy. You are confused. The Messiah was never to be A DEITY. The Lord does not require what is described here.
THE PROBLEM IS INCORRECT
TRANSLATION IN WHOLE ENGLISH BIBLE!!
In the Filipino language, the letter says that if you accidentally touch a snake or accidentally drink poison, you will not be harmed, just like what happened to Apostle Paul, he accidentally encountered a snake. you yourself will not touch a snake or drink poison because then you are testing God .. the problem is the whole english bible is incorrect translation!!!
Naw just hillbillies
They prefer Appalachian - American
We used to go West Virginia in the summers see the family i used to come back. With $4-$5 thousand one time i came home with $11.9 thousand.
My cousin and I caught Rattle Snakes, Copperheads, sold them to the Snake Churches.
They invited me, i didn’t go, i have only been in a church one time in my 55 years. They weren't very happy me asking why Invisible Skyman needed money.
Everything you said is preposterous. I don't believe a word of it.🪱🪱
PURE WITCHCRAFT!!!
Cananite Serpent Worship reinvented.
Witchcraft!!!!
No, it isn't witchcraft. I don't know any churches like this, but I understand that they are taking the Bible literally. To them, a serpent is a snake that crawls on it's belly in the woods. To me, a serpent is an evil spirit that a person can be master over because of the Love of God that is in him or her.
The singing, praying, and the people themselves are very humble and very caring. I do not agree, however, with bring the "serpents" into a church.
Do you even know what Witchcraft is?
I have never known a single Witch that prays to the Mythological Christ Character.
Just because someone else's religion is different from yours, it doesn't make them a Witch and anymore then judging another. Makes you a Christian.
Lord have pity on those poor ignorant people.
Looks like the area out of the film, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, even down to the trailer homes where the big fat lady says, on my oh my. 😁😁😁
2000 years after Jesus and they started playing with snakes? So one guy says something according to Mark and its only in a small area of the South.... well shit ..where do i sign up to dance with poisonous snakes and drink poisons?