Re: World Snake Day

David Dalton <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Jul 2021 21:41:03 -0230
Newsgroups alt.folklore, alt.mythology, alt.arts.storytelling, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.religion, talk.religion.misc
Organization Eternal September
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 16, 2021, ansaman wrote
(in article <[email protected]>):

> On 7/16/2021 4:49 PM, David Dalton wrote:
> > And note that when people refer to St. Patrick driving
> > snakes out of Ireland that really means he drove
> > paganism out of Ireland, so World Snake Day
> > I think can mean World Pagan Day.:-)
>
> There really ARE no snakes in Ireland unless
> they are in cages.

Yes, but there never were any.

The same is true for Newfoundland.

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