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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 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]
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Two years later, prior to the 2012–13 season, Terry tattooed the Celtics' famous leprechaun spinning the trophy on his finger on his left arm. [47] He also got a tattoo related to the Brooklyn Nets in 2013, though it did not reference a championship trophy.
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]
The National Leprechaun Museum is a privately owned museum dedicated to Irish folklore and mythology, through the oral tradition of storytelling. It is located on Jervis Street in Dublin , Ireland , since 10 March 2010.
The tavluġun is an Indigenous Iñupiaq chin tattoo worn by women. [1] [2] [3] Women received tavlugun after puberty when they were of an age to be married and demonstrated their inner strength and tolerance for pain. [1] Marjorie Tahbone (Inupiaq/Kiowa) is a tattoo artist dedicated to reviving customary Alaska Native tattoos such as tavlugun ...
Crichton Leprechaun, a news story of a purported leprechaun in Mobile, Alabama; Kobold, (occasionally cobold) is a sprite stemming from Germanic mythology and surviving into modern times in German folklore; Leprechaun economics, a term coined by Paul Krugman for Ireland's 2015 26.3% GDP growth rate; Leprecon (disambiguation)