leprechauns

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It is easy-breezy, light spirited — rainbows, leprechauns, good luck, good cheer — it is childlike in its commitment to being pure fun.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2024

“They were just the little beings out in the outskirts of town that would make your life difficult,” Professor Stuart said, comparing them to leprechauns or elves in other traditions.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023

Dinklage has used his platform to fight Hollywood depictions of dwarfs as leprechauns or elves, and he’s pushed back against society’s tendency to highlight “the cutesiness of little people.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2022

“We put them in the same bracket as the leprechauns and the ringforts, end of the rainbow type stuff.”

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2020

Alone of the ‘little people’, leprechauns can speak, though they have never requested reclassification as ‘beings’.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling