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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 Dutch Kabouters are akin to the Irish Leprechaun, Scandinavian Tomte or Nisse, the English Hob, [1] the Scottish Brownie [2] and the German Klabauter or kobold. [ 3 ] In the folklore of the Low Countries , Kabouters are tiny people, about 10–15 cm tall, who live in or near houses and stables, or in hills, in forests or on heaths.
The traps are typically green and gold and decorated with stereotypical leprechaun items: gold coins, rainbows, a top hat and shamrocks. Leprechaun traps can also be run as a school project, where kindergarten and first grade pupils construct traps at school and arrive on St Patrick's Day to find that the leprechaun has "sprung" them but ...
St. Patrick's Day Leprechauns (and their leprechaun traps, pranks, coins, etc.) are becoming yet another holiday magic making chore for parents.
The hat was typically worn with one point facing forward, though it was not at all unusual for soldiers, who would often rest a rifle or musket on their right shoulder, to wear the tricorne pointed to the left to allow better clearance. The crown is low, unlike the steeple hats worn by the Puritans or the top hat of the 19th century. [4]
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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Lutin is generally translated into English as: brownie, elf, fairy, gnome, goblin, hobgoblin, imp, leprechaun, pixie, puck, jetin or sprite. [2] It sometimes takes the form of a horse saddled ready to ride, and in this shape is called Le Cheval Bayard. [3] Lutins sometimes tangle people's or horses' hair into elf-locks. [3]