Happy Go Blarney! Little-Known Facts About St. Patrick

There were no snakes in Ireland actually, but St. Patrick used to hallucinate snakes something awful when he was hitting the sauce. The story of how he banished all the snakes from Ireland evolved out of a true incident down the pub where, disgusted by a particularly vivid episode of the slithery visions with which he was plagued, Patrick jumped up on a table, spread his unsteady arms dramatically and declared "THAT'S IT! NO MORE SNAKES."

He then left the pub and never took another drop (except at Mass).