There never were any snakes in Ireland for Patrick to cast out, but here he is in Purgatory
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@CatherineEsse @medievalhistory Intriguing! Soooo is it true of all such islands?! And do they have snake-banishing saints too?!?
@caitlinrgreen @medievalhistory but ?only Ireland places saintly intervention as driver? ;) and snakes don't deserve to be banished anyhow:)
@CatherineEsse @caitlinrgreen Modern historians in their desire to take the magic out of everything have declared that snakes = pagans ;)
@caitlinrgreen @medievalhistory well, lack of land bridges=significant barrier to land based species migration flowing last glacial episode
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