{"id":34913,"date":"2018-03-18T14:56:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T14:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/18\/st-patrick-and-the-snakes\/"},"modified":"2018-03-18T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T15:00:57","slug":"st-patrick-and-the-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/18\/st-patrick-and-the-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"ST PATRICK AND THE SNAKES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>Today (March 17th) is the Feast of St Patrick, an historical person who lived in the 6th Century and who is noted for his mission to Ireland.\u00a0 A number of legends have grown up around the saint and one of them supposedly accounts for the fact that there are no wild snakes in Ireland today.\u00a0 It is said Patrick drove them out.<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>However, most zoologists feel that there weren&#8217;t snakes in Ireland before St Patrick&#8217;s time.\u00a0 The reason for this is that the snakes didn&#8217;t fancy swimming across.\u00a0 According to Wikipedia, Ireland became separated from Continental Europe about 16,000 years ago.\u00a0 The only other European countries without snakes are Iceland and Greenland.<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GNzMyzXFItM\/Wq1Ngk79WpI\/AAAAAAAAX50\/NC7uBHoY_KoX37SrrlEAYAulR7tLnkarQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/th.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/th-21.jpg?resize=164%2C320\" width=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cfz-usa.blogspot.com\/2018\/03\/st-patrick-and-snakes.html\" target=\"_blank\">source: CFZ-USA<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (March 17th) is the Feast of St Patrick, an historical person who lived in the 6th Century and who is noted for his mission to Ireland.\u00a0 A number of legends have grown up around the saint and one of them supposedly accounts for the fact that there are no wild snakes in Ireland today.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":34914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,30,29,27,15],"class_list":["post-34913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bryanbowden","tag-cryptozoology","tag-itgu-insidethegoblinuniverse","tag-ronaldmurphy","tag-paranormal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EDHE-957","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34412,"url":"https:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/24\/the-legend-of-the-hoop-snake\/","url_meta":{"origin":34913,"position":0},"title":"THE LEGEND OF THE HOOP SNAKE","author":"CFZ-USA","date":"February 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Legends of Hoop Snakes are found in both the USA and Scandinavia.\u00a0 In Ireland, where there are no snakes, the same legend is told of eels. now read on.....","rel":"","context":"In \"#BryanBowden\"","block_context":{"text":"#BryanBowden","link":"https:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/tag\/bryanbowden\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/th-5.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":31623,"url":"https:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/13\/giant-snakes-north-africa\/","url_meta":{"origin":34913,"position":1},"title":"GIANT SNAKES &#8211; 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