Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The miniseries contains two main stories that eventually intertwine: the first being the story of an American businessman who visits Ireland and encounters magical leprechauns and the second, a story of a pair of star-crossed lovers who happen to be a fairy and a leprechaun, belonging to opposing sides of a magical war.
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]
1964 "The Star Invaders" (unpublished short story) [3] 1983 "The Leprechaun" (unpublished and unfinished): This story was written for King's son Owen King. In the story, Owen is playing in a garden when he sees his cat attacking what seems to be a small animal, only to discover that the cat is attacking a tiny man. At that point, the story ends.
In 1888, W. B. Yeats noted that the gancanagh was not found in dictionaries and the fairy was not well-known in Connacht. [1]In a story collected in The Dublin and London Magazine in 1825, ganconer is defined as "a name given to the fairies, alias the 'good people,' in the North of Ireland."
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)
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The Leprechaun Who Wished He Wasn't (1993) Dialann Sár-Rúnda Amy Ní Chonchúir; Call of the Whales (2000) Long Story Short (2011) "Bruised" (2011) Maitríóisce – Bisto Merit Award, 2012; Heart-Shaped (2013) Alexandra (2014) Fionnuala (2014)
The clurichaun (/ ˈ k l uː r ɪ k ɔː n /) or clúrachán (from Irish: clobhair-ceann [1]) is a mischievous fairy in Irish folklore known for his great love of drinking and a tendency to haunt breweries, pubs and wine cellars. [2] He is related to the leprechaun and has sometimes been conflated with him as a shoemaker and a guardian of ...