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St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner, believe it or not! This year, between your Irish soda bread baking, green beer drinking, searching for four-leaf clovers, and general merry-making, you ...
The modern image of the leprechaun sitting on a toadstool, having a red beard and green hat, etc. is a more modern invention, or borrowed from other strands of European folklore. [39] The most likely explanation for the modern day Leprechaun appearance is that green is a traditional national Irish color dating back as far as 1642. [40]
The mascot of Lucky Charms, created in 1963, is Lucky the Leprechaun, also known as Sir Charms, and originally called L.C. Leprechaun. [5] The cartoon character's voice was supplied by the late voice actor Arthur Anderson until 1992. [6] Lucky has also been voiced by Eric Bauza, Tex Brashear, Jason Graae, Doug Preis, and Daniel Ross. [7]
St. Patrick's Day Leprechauns (and their leprechaun traps, pranks, coins, etc.) are becoming yet another holiday magic making chore for parents.
The Leprechaun was not always the official mascot of Notre Dame. For years, the team was represented by a series of Irish terrier dogs. The first, named Brick Top Shuan-Rhu, was donated by Charles Otis of Cleveland and presented to football head coach Knute Rockne the weekend of the Notre Dame-Pennsylvania game November 8, 1930.
The journalists struggled to stay serious as locals explained their theories about the sighting. "To me, it look like a leprechaun to me. All you gotta do is look up in the tree.
Numerous witnesses identified the Crichton Leprechaun as a local resident named "Midget Sean," a person of short stature. The interviewers met the man, who recounted the story as a prank played on the local community, in which he dressed in a leprechaun suit and climbed a tree while his friends alerted others about a leprechaun sighting. [11] [12]
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