Serpent-handling Pastor Profiled Earlier In Washington Post Dies From Rattlesnake Bite

Tue, 05/29/2012 - 5:35pm — Julia Duin

Mack Wolford, a flamboyant Pentecostal pastor from West Virginia whose serpent-handling talents were profiled last November in The Washington Post Magazine, hoped the outdoor service he had planned for Sunday at an isolated state park would be a “homecoming like the old days,” full of folks speaking in tongues, handling snakes and having a “great time.” But it was not the sort of homecoming he foresaw.

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