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The Serpent and the Spirit: Glenn Summerford's Story by Thomas Burton (review)

It's a tragedy Shakespeare might have written. Except for the time frame—1991 as compared to 1602—the elements in this modern drama are as Shakespearian as a story can get-attempted murder, secret liaisons, adultery, violence, and betrayal. Throw rattlesnakes and copperheads into the mix of characters, and you have a cast as threatening and poisonous as those in Hamlet. The setting? It's not Denmark, but Scottsboro, Alabama, where Glen Summerford, a serpent-handling preacher, is accused of attempted murder by forcing his wife's hand into a box of poisonous snakes because of her confessed infidelity. Summerford is tried, found guilty, and, owing to a history of prior convictions, sentenced to 99 years in prison. With his first book on snake handlers, Serpent-Handling Believers (The University of Tennessee Press, 1993), author Thomas Burton gained the trust of his subjects by presenting an historical and unbiased portrayal of the sect that bases its religion on Mark 16: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly