Raine E- Gervais

Come get ready for the holidays with me!
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Winter vibes for this angel 😇 ❄️

My lovely guest got some tropical toes for her Costa Rica vacation!
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We're all ready for the holidays here at Gervais! 🎅🎄❄️brogden

Happy Halloween
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Happy Halloween bakes
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Book a CBD add on to your next manicure or pedicure with me!
We use topical tincture applied directly to the skin. CBD helps to reduce redness, swelling and alleviate sore muscles and joints.

The gradient queen returns!
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Fun cactus nails for spring break! 🌵✨️

Oh spring... we're so ready for you! 🌸🌼🌷

Why I wear black today.
To clear the story up, as you can imagine, there aren't really that many "snakes" to drive out of Ireland. Serpents were one of the primary symbols in many pagan religions in Ireland at the time. Essentially, "driving the snakes out" is a nice allegory for driving the Pagans out of Ireland. No, they weren't shipped off an a boat to somewhere else, they weren't asked to leave, as was the tradition of the time, you can imagine that this actually meant that they were either a) converted or b) killed. It's probably of no surprise to also hear that conversion at the time (again, think Crusades) wasn't exactly a friendly sit-down talk.
In the oral traditions that have been passed along in pre-Christian Ireland recount that St. Patrick was in fact responsible for the deaths of many, many people, Druids, priest, bards, and all of their people. Some histories say that he would go into towns with a bunch of his thugs, preach, and wait for someone to call him out because they already had their own culture and beliefs. They would then take that person, nail them shut into a human size-ish crate (essentially a box made up of loose slats so air and water can go through it), and put them under water until they were about to drown, and repeat this over and over, until the person would either die or convert "of his own free will." Of course, he never told anyone to convert, he just gave them the "choice."
Why don't we hear this much? Isn't it obvious? The pre-Christian Irish had no written history, only oral histories. As the Druids and Bards were killed so too were the stories. If you pass down your history through oral tradition, kill the source of the story, and they disappear.
I wear black to mourn the innocent lives lost.
Happy Bring Back The Serpents Day!
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This Alice in Wonderland pedi is everything. Swipe for a close up ➡️