Snake handling ceremony from the docu "Holy Ghost People" (1967)

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  • @zoyakeys1147
    @zoyakeys1147 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    First song is their own doctored up version of "Sing O Barren Sing" with some verses i dont recognise:
    Sing oh barren sing
    Thou who wouldst not bear,
    You shall have a song
    For all men everywhere.
    The river of life within
    Is calling out to say,
    Sing oh barren sing
    For this is God's new day.
    A nation shall be born in a day
    All around that city of God,
    When john was on the isle of Patmos
    He received a revelation from God.
    (Cant make out third verse)
    A nation shall be born in a day, (2x)
    When Zion travails she shall bring forth
    A nation shall be birn in a day.
    They also add a stanza of
    Walking in the light of the Lord (2x)
    Im walking in the light that shines by night
    Im walking in the light of the Lord.
    Second song is "Go Down Moses"

    • @dyingforbadmusic
      @dyingforbadmusic  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for this valuable information! Much appreciated!

  • @jasonburrell3508
    @jasonburrell3508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I love this music!

    • @Icykaleidescope
      @Icykaleidescope 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What hymn are they singing?

    • @jasonburrell3508
      @jasonburrell3508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm not real sure, but I love it

    • @jasonburrell3508
      @jasonburrell3508 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know I've herd it

    • @dyingforbadmusic
      @dyingforbadmusic  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Icykaleidescope Sing O Barren Sing and Go Down Moses. See comment by @Zoya Keys th-cam.com/video/hM2eFXsbToM/w-d-xo.html&lc=UgxnbL72TFdO9lf_ZiB4AaABAg

  • @williamwalker8201
    @williamwalker8201 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'd never miss a Sunday if church was like this.

  • @jasonburrell3508
    @jasonburrell3508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    When the moonshine is spot on..

    • @ronaldshank7589
      @ronaldshank7589 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I don't know about that...but these people, that were doing that stuff , must've been completely out of their mindß❤

    • @jasonburrell3508
      @jasonburrell3508 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Lord works in mysterious ways

    • @ronaldshank7589
      @ronaldshank7589 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jasonburrell3508 Believe me-This isn't about The Lord. It's about following Man's "Interpretation", of what The Bible says.

    • @jasonburrell3508
      @jasonburrell3508 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed

  • @consadosambora5347
    @consadosambora5347 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Man Elvis owes some royalties.

  • @andrewgriggs7604
    @andrewgriggs7604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Poor snakes! Snakes like to spend their time in burrows and in the underbrush. The snakes must be driven insane in the midst of all those people.

    • @kathleendickerson9602
      @kathleendickerson9602 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Animal abuse!!!!

    • @ronaldshank7589
      @ronaldshank7589 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@kathleendickerson9602BIG TIME!!! If the Serpents would've hauled off, and bit one or two of these morons, I wouldn't have blamed 'em one single bit!
      These people are evil to the core, as far as I'm concerned. They take The Bible, twist the Scriptures to suit them, and lie and deceive others into following their damnable ways! The leaders of these Cults are purposefully putting people in harm's way, and, so far, a good many people have died, either through Snake Venom, or through drinking Strychnine! What are these people even THINKING?!?
      Of course, "Religious Nutsery" abides in a good many of them.
      I guess some people will do anything to be "Accepted" by others... even if it means putting their lives on the line!
      If that's what life is about, then I'm glad that I'm pretty much alone!

  • @charliemcelwain8874
    @charliemcelwain8874 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We know how to have a good time in the lord God bless West Virginia churches and her people 🙏

  • @donnieking7703
    @donnieking7703 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Went to a church real similar to this one as a child, scared the hell out of me, had nightmares afterward. I felt the devil around me not the Lord.

    • @mordecaiesther3591
      @mordecaiesther3591 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I wish to GOD that Jesus would let me find a church like this in Maryland . Most churches across this world would make Jesus sick and vomit it out . They believe the Bible . InJesus Name

    • @cliffclark6441
      @cliffclark6441 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was the devil. Most of these type churches are composed of mental patients.Some of the most religious people i knew from my child hood are now open devil worship. Common for these type people to have history of going to mental hospital. I was one of the few who could sit around the loud music and screaming just watching and not letting it affect me. Because i knew how these same people was out side church. It is no different as any other show. And it is all a show.

    • @jasonburrell3508
      @jasonburrell3508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cause the devil was there to. Very powerful

    • @dyingforbadmusic
      @dyingforbadmusic  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cliffclark6441 they believe as deeply as you believe. They just worship differently. There are many documentaries and interviews out there. Some try to paint them as freaks, some portray them as firm believers. archive.org/details/thejoloserpenthandlers

  • @thomasoneal403
    @thomasoneal403 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Theres nothing going on here that three hits of good LSD wouldn't help!!! Whew!!! Love this!!!!

  • @GinCollins007
    @GinCollins007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I used to do that rattler stomp hoedown back in the days of heavy drinking and drugs but since the rummatiz set in from all those bites I just don't get out much anymore

  • @bimscutney1242
    @bimscutney1242 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Life’s not hard enough in the coal mines. Bring out the venomous snakes!

  • @karlvonklutz6867
    @karlvonklutz6867 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    When church music was great!

    • @pinesiskin59
      @pinesiskin59 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I' m glad I' m not the only freak who likes watching this stuff.

    • @cooper2179
      @cooper2179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pinesiskin59 you're not alone with this stuff.

  • @susiethomas6909
    @susiethomas6909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The music is fun. The snakes, not so much.

  • @stephenwoodman6015
    @stephenwoodman6015 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love it !!!

  • @philjackson5387
    @philjackson5387 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    If you want a good show, get you a front row seat in a Pentecostal church..

    • @sl4983
      @sl4983 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a blessing not many people get to have.

    • @philjackson5387
      @philjackson5387 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Please tell us the blessing?

    • @philjackson5387
      @philjackson5387 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sl4983 In what way?

    • @philjackson5387
      @philjackson5387 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sl4983 Still waiting...

  • @Kerfufflekitten
    @Kerfufflekitten 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I handled a big ole snake this morning when I went to pee🤣🤣nah I love this video!

  • @ronaldshank7589
    @ronaldshank7589 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Umm.....
    YIKES!!!
    That was the Snake Handler's Melody, live from a "Church", somewhere in the Good Old U. S. of A...., and You heard it here first, from Radio Station W. R. W. S!!!

  • @jamestuohy8897
    @jamestuohy8897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Those old gals knew how to Party!!

    • @cliffclark6441
      @cliffclark6441 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And i remember how they would hit the floor wallow around dress up to there waist and some had no panties on. Used to love the show,never knew what would happen. I was in church one day and this old woman died, no kidding she was siting there dead. They kept on dancing. Seemed like for ever before any one noticed she had died. When they did ever one panicked.

  • @mlpenn54
    @mlpenn54 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Neither let us tempt Christ , as some of them tempted , and were destroyed of serpents. Luke 10 : 9

  • @jamestuohy8897
    @jamestuohy8897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I might head down south with my trouser snake...

  • @Zachito15
    @Zachito15 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    First Lady was the first spotted Church Twerking

  • @rosesanderson306
    @rosesanderson306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Elvis loved church music.

  • @rozeAC
    @rozeAC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    did the guy die from the bite?

  • @chrischamberlain4846
    @chrischamberlain4846 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    People don’t worship the lord like this anymore except in very few churches in Tennessee and and the Appalachia area. When the Holy Ghost touches you, it’s something you’ll never forget it.

  • @l.w.f.c3291
    @l.w.f.c3291 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This group would laugh at covid 19

  • @consadosambora5347
    @consadosambora5347 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Looks funnier than the Catholic services I attend with my wife 2x a year.

    • @toddmiller5656
      @toddmiller5656 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, does the priest consecrate the host and wine while holding a timber rattler?

  • @MrLa1983
    @MrLa1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wat church is Dey at
    I wanna go visit 1day

  • @vadaminot429
    @vadaminot429 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Well they weren't morbidly obese back then....

    • @dyingforbadmusic
      @dyingforbadmusic  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Higher consumption of high-fructose corn syrup started in the eighties. That might be one reason.

    • @deadair801
      @deadair801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The strychnine diet

    • @pinesiskin59
      @pinesiskin59 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was thinking the same thing. I saw a show about contemporary snake handlers and they were almost all like 100 pounds overweight.

    • @ronaldshank7589
      @ronaldshank7589 ปีที่แล้ว

      Must've been all that dancin' around, keepin' 'em thin!

  • @saintmichael1779
    @saintmichael1779 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder what Jung would have to say about the snake handlers?

  • @randyjoe595
    @randyjoe595 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm not ashamed of it.

    • @kentherlan7465
      @kentherlan7465 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Amen, me either! Very proud of my up bringing!

  • @immoegreen200
    @immoegreen200 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I heard that once a venomous snake bites you then you have a real religious experience!!!

  • @Glopdemon
    @Glopdemon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    These people would never admit it but this is shamanism with a Christian paint job

    • @ibelieve98
      @ibelieve98 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What is shamanism. ??

  • @kentherlan7465
    @kentherlan7465 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    AMEN to my LORD!

    • @jasonburrell3508
      @jasonburrell3508 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      In some weird way, I can relate. I do feel the Holy spirit with this.

  • @toddmiller5656
    @toddmiller5656 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The real music. Not that cajun Balfa Brothers track like in the other video.

  • @appalachiafishingclub
    @appalachiafishingclub 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Before they started cutting blow.

  • @chewie2055
    @chewie2055 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Jesus would do the biggest face palm

  • @jasonburrell3508
    @jasonburrell3508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I hope the covid19 suffering folks see this

  • @susiethomas6909
    @susiethomas6909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:05 Someone took a double helping of the communion wine. 2:06 Alright, get her off stage.

  • @annabelle2ful
    @annabelle2ful 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Snakes charmed by the music.

  • @slagjumper
    @slagjumper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'd milk those snakes the day before playing with them.

    • @cliffclark6441
      @cliffclark6441 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When the practice first started they used de fanged snakes. Today the smart ones milk the snakes or at least prob them to get them to strike and release venom before handling. It is like any other show it can be dangers.

  • @mpaxton8991
    @mpaxton8991 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like the music but the rest is for the snakes!

  • @andrewhampson5162
    @andrewhampson5162 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dub step

  • @thebrocialist8300
    @thebrocialist8300 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    These people are demented

  • @joellynlamm3553
    @joellynlamm3553 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I can do the music. .not snakes, fire or drinking poison!

  • @crooked-halo
    @crooked-halo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Christians who handle venomous snakes are incorrect in their interpretation of Mark 16:18. That verse does not command or suggest that we literally handle venomous snakes! It is a metaphor of God's divine protection in the context of danger. These snake handling Christians are wrong and do not understand exegesis or God's word.

    • @dyingforbadmusic
      @dyingforbadmusic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If it is a misinterpretation of the bible, then it's the least harmful (to others). I'll take a snake handler over a snake oil salesman any day. Malicious self-serving freaks like Kenneth Copeland, Jim Baker, Joel Osteen, or the demon Greg Locke are the real problem, not marginalized communities from some of the poorest states, who took two verses of the bible too literally. This is just my opinion as an agnostic non-American :). I love their music. That's the main reason for posting this, but I'm interested in people's opinions, so thanks for leaving a comment. Check out the interview with Pastor Chris Wolford whose brother got killed by a venomous snake. th-cam.com/video/JZUz_S8EGxE/w-d-xo.html - cheers.

  • @krista9015
    @krista9015 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Animal abuse and child endangerment

  • @kristenconrad4222
    @kristenconrad4222 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That is Animal abuse!!
    I don't like snakes i would never pick one up thin throw it across the room !
    I would bite all of them if i was a snake they deserve it

  • @stephenmaskrey6527
    @stephenmaskrey6527 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I should imagine they're all dead now, and passed on the crazy gene to their children

    • @dyingforbadmusic
      @dyingforbadmusic  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Do you think their faith in god is as deep as the faith of people that go to Kenneth Copeland or Joel Osteen mega church services? Who is crazier?

    • @ronaldshank7589
      @ronaldshank7589 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wouldn't be surprised...not one bit!

    • @stephenmaskrey6527
      @stephenmaskrey6527 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dyingforbadmusic I haven't a clue who they are, bit I'm sure when I die it will not be from a snake bite, here in the UK, we only have the grass snake and adder I have enough sense to leave them be, a can understand the fantastic music they sing as its very uplifting, but picking up poisonous snakes is madness, they need a nice room and straight jackets to protect them from themselves, were all entitled to our view's, were not entitled to be cruel to snakes on the mad manner that they handle the poor creatures

    • @travisc5258
      @travisc5258 ปีที่แล้ว

      What did you eat for lunch today? I'm curious....

  • @ghettofreeze
    @ghettofreeze 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    All based on a mistranslation of a book about mythology

  • @JP-wx6uh
    @JP-wx6uh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sub-species

    • @travisc5258
      @travisc5258 ปีที่แล้ว

      And where do you fit in ya piece of low life sh*t???? Lemme guess. You're in your mid 20's, gay, lives at home, shitty job. Etc?? Sound about right?

  • @ronirios3377
    @ronirios3377 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You mean devil people.

  • @TyGamesNL
    @TyGamesNL 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    One word: WITCHCRAFT.

    • @danielturner9832
      @danielturner9832 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Some demonic influence going on their

    • @tansongpinoy1354
      @tansongpinoy1354 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not all study the Counterfeit Christianity

    • @ibelieve98
      @ibelieve98 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes the false KUNDALINI SERPENT SPIRIT

    • @ibelieve98
      @ibelieve98 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@danielturner9832KUNDALINI SERPENT SPIRIT

  •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Looked like Hillary’s post election party after she lost to Trump.

  • @travisc5258
    @travisc5258 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Anyone know the name of the song?

    • @dyingforbadmusic
      @dyingforbadmusic  ปีที่แล้ว

      I wish I knew. Hard to understand. Something something Alabama?

    • @travisc5258
      @travisc5258 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have a massive collection of 1920s through 1930's 78rpm records. I'm sure this is gonna be a very old gospel song. It's probably on a lot of depression and pre depression Era records. By the way, I've seen these churches face to face. There used to be one north of Houston Texas in a town called Cleveland, Texas. Its something you gotta see for yourself.

    • @travisc5258
      @travisc5258 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've checked with 3 of the best discographers in the US and noone knows what song this is. I'm gonna send this link to some churches over in Appalachia and ask them.

    • @dyingforbadmusic
      @dyingforbadmusic  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@travisc5258 It's hard to recognize any lyrics, isn't it? (I'm not a native English speaker so there is that :)). Please let me know if you find out more.
      The book “Them That Believe.” The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition by Hood and Williamson has a dedicated chapter about the music and they write: "We have found that most serpent-handling churches use and maintain handwritten or typewritten songbooks that contain songs handed down from generation to generation."
      Regarding the music in general, there is at least one serpent handler who published 3 records in the 70s, it's Thomas Coots, he founded the church in Middlesborro, KY: folk-visions.com/serpent-handling/connecting-dots-the-music-of-serpent-handlers-the-coots-duo-and-the-coots-duet/

    • @zoyakeys1147
      @zoyakeys1147 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Sing, O Barren Sing"
      Sing O Barren Sing
      Thou who wouldst not bear
      You shall have a song
      For all men everywhere
      The river of life within
      Is calling out to say
      Sing O Barren Sing
      For this is God's new day.
      A nation shall be born in a day (2x)
      When Zion travails she shall bring forth
      A nation shall be born in a day.

  • @donbeck5109
    @donbeck5109 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’m so glad I’m an atheist with common sense.

    • @ronaldshank7589
      @ronaldshank7589 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm not an Atheist, but I, too, am glad that I have good common sense! I used to be in the Pentecostal Movement, but the worst thing I ever saw, was two guys at the Altar, crawling around on their hands and knees, barking like dogs. That was bad enough for me! It wasn't long after that, that I left that Church!

    • @travisc5258
      @travisc5258 ปีที่แล้ว

      You do realize how ignorant your statement sounds right????