Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 17, 2023

There’s a LOT of that going around…

… or it’s what people give you credit for.

He should go live in Crediton in Devon!

And the church also took the ancient goddesses and stuck a St. before their names, appropriated the sacred groves and wells, and created new back stories. Nothing if not thorough.

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend” (from an old western movie)

I suspect he made peace with an early dragonship.

How on earth can anybody say that there were never any snakes in Ireland?

This relates to the current story line on Non Sequitur.

I do like that Frazz asked the question he did.

With a Toyota.

So there aren’t any pet snakes or zoo’s in Ireland with snakes? Has Alice Cooper ever played a concert there?

Caulfield picked up on the prevailing tendency in most humans. He missed the point that fables are just that and not usually backed in fact.

Note: in this post and yesterday I picked up a blue underline on words [our and backed] that are common in almost any dictionary short of something in the library on Mars. Right click brings up choices to replace it that in no way relate the topic or context or the actual existence of the word. Gocomics still messing with the auto editor. Irritating.

That’s OK; Patrick was never canonized, so there ya go – even steven.

I read somewhere that “driving the snakes out” was a metaphor for driving the Druids and paganism out of of Ireland and instilling Christianity.

Surprisingly, no politician has claimed to have driven the Orcs out of the USA, but some have come close to making that claim. Right now they’re worried about the unicorns.

“I’ve had it with these @#$%ing snakes on this @#$%ing emerald isle!”

St. Patrick did not rid the Irish of serpents,

According to all of my sources.

They were noted as absent before he was born,

On account of environment forces.

It’s unlikely they ever existed on Erin,

Which used to be fully submerged.

It appears that the legend has snakes stand for druids,

Whom Patrick had thoroughly scourged.

—me

He did not drive any snakes out and he brought in something worse.