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Serpent-handling pastor dies from snake bite
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“Mack” Wolford, a Pentecostal pastor from West Virginia who tried to preserve the religious tradition of serpent-handling, died Sunday during an outdoor service after being bitten by a rattlesnake he’d owned for years. Wolford’s father died the same way in 1983.
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