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Holy Snakes

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The inhabitants of the villages consider them to be holy, collecting them and setting them on the silver icon of the '''Virgin of the Snakes''' (''Panagia Fidoussa''). It has been documented by the locals that during World War II and the year of the island's destructive 1953 earthquake in August, the snakes failed to appear. The locals now use this as a sign that if the snakes do not show just before the 15th of August that something bad is imminent.
 
==Blooming Lillies==
Also on the island of Kefalonia at a different church on May of each year, women of the island pick lilies and place them on the icon of the Virgin Mary. Once a flower is cut and its stem is completely dry it can not bud again, but these dried lilies, on the 15th of August fully blossom again, they don't begin the blossoming on the previous days, but they begin and reach the full blossom on the 15th.
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