Baltic Snake Cults
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Around the chilly shores of the Baltic, for nine hundred years from the ninth century, a succession of Dark Age monks, Franciscan friars, Reformed or Lutheran Protestant pastors and Jesuits ruefully recalled that in the Garden of Eden ‘the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made’ (Genesis 3:1). During this first biblical stage of its...

