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[silk_for_calde]

One of the first curses I experienced was much like this-- not beer, but milkshakes. Several flavors of them, coming through all the faucets. I imagine this has the potential to be much more destructive, should people overindulge; the worst results of that one, as I recall, were some unfortunately sticky individuals and a few stomach aches the

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[knockoff_hero]

Today is kind of about serpents. I mean, St. Patrick banished them from Ireland and all.

[silk_for_calde]

Did he? I'm afraid I know next to nothing about your saints.

[knockoff_hero]

Also he brought Christianity there, I think, which is the actual reason he's important, but mostly people use today to celebrate Ireland and Irish things, which is why everything's green. Most of my family is Catholic, so I guess I'd know more about saints than most, but that doesn't mean I know a whole lot of details.

[silk_for_calde]

I see... so perhaps it wasn't quite blind luck. I'm from a different whorl; so such matters tend to be a mystery to me. Why did he banish the serpents?

[knockoff_hero]

Because snakes are...poisonous sometimes? Actually, I think that's just a legend. Or maybe it's symbolic for driving out sin or pagan beliefs or something.

There's a lot of symbolism with snakes.

[silk_for_calde]

Snakes are the symbol of one of our primary goddesses, so it seems strange that one would want to drive them out, from my perspective... though I've read a bit about their meaning in your whorl.