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		<title>Woman fatally bitten by snake during church</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman died after being bitten by a snake during a serpent-handling service at church, police said.]]></description>
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		<title>For snake handlers, going to church can prove deadly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Rev. Dwayne Long picked up a rattlesnake in church last Sunday to show his faith in God, he was breaking a Virginia law that makes it a misdemeanor to handle dangerous snakes.
A conviction could have cost him $250.
His convictions, however, cost him his life.
Long, 45, died the next day of a snakebite he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snakebite during service proves fatal to minister</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[JONESVILLE, Va. &#8212; A preacher who refused medical treatment after a rattlesnake bit him during the serpent-handling part of an Easter service has died, authorities said.
The Rev. Dwayne Long, 45, of Rose Hill in far southwestern Virginia, was holding a rattlesnake when it bit him on the back of a finger, Lee County Sheriff Gary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snake Handlers Hang On in Appalachian Churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2003 21:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Geographic News, Apr. 7, 2003
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/
Brian Handwerk, for National Geographic News
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the [...]]]></description>
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