There he remarried and began to preach again. He and his family moved to Kentucky and again began to handle snakes. By the 1940s, the movement had captured both the attention of the national media and the local lawmakers, and the practice was outlawed. They were, of course, repeatedly arrested. Once bitten Today about 2,500 Pentecostals practice snake handling.
Jewelry is forbidden, including wedding rings and watches.
Women may not cut their hair. Today most adherents believe even the devout will be bitten occasionally. Many receivers of this anointing have no recollection of the experience or even of handling the serpents. The founder of the movement lived into his seventy-fifth year. Like so many times before, he refused medical treatment.