Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
According to William Butler Yeats, the great wealth of the leprechauns comes from the "treasure-crocks, buried of old in war-time", which they have uncovered and appropriated. [32] According to David Russell McAnally, the leprechaun is the son of an "evil spirit" and a "degenerate fairy" and is "not wholly good nor wholly evil". [33]
Irish memory is very significant, and many Irish plays are centered around this theme, which can be much more interesting than leprechauns, fairy forts, and other mythical folklore people have ...
Enanos (dwarfs in English) are diminutive beings that toil night and day in the forests, guard the immense riches that the subterranean world hides, and, mockingly, tempt the greed of peasants by offering him gold combs, bags full of silver, which later become piles of withered fern leaves and white pebbles. Some enanos, like the Duende de los ...
St. Patrick's Day Leprechauns (and their leprechaun traps, pranks, coins, etc.) are becoming yet another holiday magic making chore for parents.
Here's the truth about leprechauns. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Lebor Gabála Érenn (literally "The Book of the Taking of Ireland"; Modern Irish spelling: Leabhar Gabhála Éireann, known in English as The Book of Invasions) is a collection of poems and prose narratives in the Irish language intended to be a history of Ireland and the Irish from the creation of the world to the Middle Ages. There are a ...
Huldufólk [a] or hidden people are elves in Icelandic and Faroese folklore. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are supernatural beings that live in nature. They look and behave similarly to humans, but live in a parallel world . [ 3 ]
This has led some folklorists to suppose that the clurichaun is merely a leprechaun on a drinking spree, [1] while others regard them as regional variations of the same being. [4] Like the leprechaun, the clurichaun is a solitary fairy, encountered alone rather than in groups, as distinct from the trooping fairies .