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Saint Patrick is most known for driving the snakes from Ireland. As in many old pagan religions, serpent symbols were common and often worshipped.
15 Mar 2010 One of the most popular stories about Saint Patrick tells how he drove all the snakes out of Ireland. Could this be true?
Green Shenanigans and Pagan Snakes. 11 Feb. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Saint Patrick. Even the name sounds like a chortle.
14 Mar 2010 For more information about making a snake wreath and its relationship to St. Patrick's Day check out resident about.com pagan blogger Patti
17 Mar 2010 Many Pagans and Wiccans quietly protest St. Patrick by wearing a serpent pin or shirt on St. Patrick's Day. Or you can make this great snake
Why did St. Patrick drive out the snakes? saint patrick got rid of all the snakes in ireland to prove to a pagan that his good is powerful
12 May 2010 St Patrick helped in the slaughter of the Irish Druids. So it's not a stretch to use snakes as a metaphor for Pagans.
16 Mar 2009 The facts about St. Patrick are few. Most derive from the two Scholars now consider snakes a metaphor for the serpent of paganism.
20 Mar 2007 With the coming of Saint Patrick and other missionaries, many of the old pagan rites were linked to days of importance in the Christian
17 Mar 2010 St. Patrick's Day 2011 | Irish Gifts: St. Patrick is believed to have driven the snakes from Ireland. Once a pagan him.
Thus was the final blow given to paganism in the presence of all the assembled Pious legend credits Patrick with banishing snakes from the island
16 Mar 2008 The legend of Saint Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland may be nothing more than misreading of an ancient text.
17 Mar 2010 And herein may lie the real story about Saint Patrick driving out the snakes " Crom Cruich which literally means bloody crescent, was a pagan
17 Mar 2010 After three months of darkness and cold, St Patrick's Day is our moment to cast off the So Happy All Snakes Day to you, fellow pagans!
10 Mar 2009 since snakes are a common pagan symbol — and are not found in Ireland." - Shamrocks for St. Patrick Who Was St. Patrick? (3/11/2002)
This mark would have been familiar to all pagans as a symbol of the sun or This particular legend of Saint Patrick is easy to translate as snakes were
Ireland was full of Celts that were Druids and pagans during this era and as a Did St Patrick drive snakes from Ireland? During this time or any time
10 Mar 2009 St Patrick drove out the pagans - not the snakes St. Patrick was a Roman Christian. How could the Irish be out of sync?
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