Leprechaun trap kit
On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article is about the creature in Irish folklore. Irish folklore, classed by some as a type of solitary fairy. Leprechaun-like creatures rarely appear in Leprechaun trap kit mythology and only became prominent in later folklore.
Ireland, but there are numerous regional variants. The Irish term leithbrágan in O’Reilly’s Dictionary has also been recognized as an alternative spelling. Other variant spellings in English have included lubrican, leprehaun, and lepreehawn. Some modern Irish books use the spelling lioprachán. A leprechaun counts his gold in this engraving c. The text contains an episode in which Fergus mac Léti, King of Ulster, falls asleep on the beach and wakes to find himself being dragged into the sea by three lúchorpáin.
He captures his abductors, who grant him three wishes in exchange for release. The leprechaun is said to be a solitary creature, whose principal occupation is making and cobbling shoes, and who enjoys practical jokes. The leprechaun has been classed as a “solitary fairy” by the writer and amateur folklorist William Butler Yeats. This identification of leprechaun as a fairy has been consigned to popular notion by modern folklorist Diarmuid Ó Giolláin. Giolláin observes that the dwarf of Teutonic and other traditions as well as the household familiar are more amenable to comparison. According to William Butler Yeats, the great wealth of these fairies comes from the “treasure-crocks, buried of old in war-time”, which they have uncovered and appropriated. The leprechaun originally had a different appearance depending on where in Ireland he was found.
Prior to the 20th century, it was generally held that the leprechaun wore red, not green. According to Yeats, the solitary fairies, like the leprechaun, wear red jackets, whereas the “trooping fairies” wear green. The leprechaun’s jacket has seven rows of buttons with seven buttons to each row. He is about three feet high, and is dressed in a little red jacket or roundabout, with red breeches buckled at the knee, gray or black stockings, and a hat, cocked in the style of a century ago, over a little, old, withered face.
Round his neck is an Elizabethan ruff, and frills of lace are at his wrists. This dress could vary by region, however. The Northern Leprechaun or Logheryman wore a “military red coat and white breeches, with a broad-brimmed, high, pointed hat, on which he would sometimes stand upside down”. The Lurigadawne of Tipperary wore an “antique slashed jacket of red, with peaks all round and a jockey cap, also sporting a sword, which he uses as a magic wand”. The Luricawne of Kerry was a “fat, pursy little fellow whose jolly round face rivals in redness the cut-a-way jacket he wears, that always has seven rows of seven buttons in each row”. The Cluricawne of Monaghan wore “a swallow-tailed evening coat of red with green vest, white breeches, black stockings,” shiny shoes, and a “long cone hat without a brim,” sometimes used as a weapon. The modern image of the leprechaun sitting on a toadstool, having a red beard and green hat, etc.
