Salvation On Sand Moutain: Snake Handling And Redemption In Southern Appalachia by Dennis Covington

Salvation On Sand Moutain: Snake Handling And Redemption In Southern Appalachia

Dennis Covington

256 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir religion reflective fast-paced
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The people of Southern Appalachia are hill people of Scottish-Irish descent--religious mystics who cast out demons, drink strychnine, and handle rattlesnakes. When the author, himself Scottish-Irish, uncovers records of snake-handling Covingtons, ...

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