Vicie Haywood, mother of Pentecostal serpent-handling Pastor Mack Wolford, 44, strokes her ailing son’s feet after he suffers a rattlesnake bite during a worship service in Panther, W. Va., on May 27, 2012. In accordance with their religious beliefs, Mack and his family did not seek medical attention for the bite, and entrusted the pastor's recovery to God. He died about nine hours after being bitten. Haywood also lost her husband to a rattlesnake bite when Mack was a teenager.
(photo by Lauren Pond)