OFH Throwback- Episode #128- Did St. Patrick Kill a Wizard?

Our Fake History

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

There are few Christian saints more misunderstood than St. Patrick. Ireland’s patron saint is best known for driving the snakes off the island, but that isn’t even close to the most interesting thing about him. Both the legend of St. Patrick and the details of his real life have been poorly remembered. Driving the snakes out of Ireland is nothing compared to the wizard duels described in the medieval sources. Have we completely missed the boat on what makes St. Patrick worth remembering? Tune-in and find out how poisoned wine, miracle pigs, and demon fossils all play a role in the story.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this very special throwback episode of Our Fake History.
0:14.4	This week I'm throwing you back to season six
0:17.4	and episode number 128,
0:20.2	did St. Patrick Kill A Wizard?
0:24.0	Now, the thing about having a St. Patrick's Day episode in the Back catalog
0:30.0	is that you can only release it on or around St. Patrick's Day.
0:35.9	And if you happen to be listening to this right when it comes out,
0:39.1	then you know that St. Patrick's Day was just over a week ago. So that means that the window is
0:45.4	rapidly closing for when it would be appropriate to drop this episode.
0:51.0	Honestly, this is why I don't do too many seasonally themed shows. I like the
0:57.2	episodes to be evergreen. I don't really like for them to be time-stamped and
1:01.0	it's always annoying when you've got a show that can only be
1:04.6	released at that special time of year. But with all that said, this is one of my
1:11.4	favorite ever one-off episodes. I really think this one is fun.
1:16.0	In fact, I think that this might be a good show to people who are curious about the podcast.
1:22.0	Not sure if you're into something like our
1:24.3	fake history, show them the St. Patrick's episode. Now I titled this episode
1:31.3	Did St. Patrick Kill a Wizard, because I am amazed by the fact that we're not always bringing this up.
1:40.0	You'll hear me go on about this at length in the actual episode, but the fact that there's all this mythology about St. Patrick battling Wizards in Ireland and we're not really making that the headline on St. Patrick's Day is
1:57.0	bananas. We are sleeping on some amazing stories here.
2:02.0	Wherever you happen to live, I think you should write your
2:05.8	mayor and demand that at the next St. Patrick's Day parade there is at least one float featuring St. Patrick fighting a wizard. This is important.
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