>> Driving the snakes from Ireland was probably symbolic of putting an end to that pagan practice
That is the way I've always thought of it. The only actual account of Patrick and a serpent is in the Annals and relates to him killing a monster in Lough Derg. There must have been 2 of them because Finn McCool also did this a few hundred plus years before. Most of the things Patrick did are done by someone else in earlier stories. :-)
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