leprechaun

As Fintan O'Toole quipped recently in the Irish Times, his country "found the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow without even trying to catch the leprechaun."

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2024

There’s probably a little leprechaun one for St. Patrick’s Day.

From Slate ● May 30, 2024

I asked if he were a leprechaun, and if so, where was his pot of gold?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

Things go terribly wrong, resulting in a comedic adventure involving an unusual dragon, bunnies in hazmat suits, leprechaun millennials and an overweight German unicorn in a too-tight tracksuit.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

“The leprechaun is bound by certain rituals. Very specific rituals, I might add. We can use them to track one down.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Speaking of trillion-dollar leprechauns, you will hunt through all 545 pages in vain for those big “DOGE” savings you were promised.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

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

Three years later came Crock of Gold, with its album cover featuring a painting by Shane MacGowan of leprechauns that resembled the demons that seemed to haunt him throughout his life.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023

In Mayan culture, an aluxe is believed to be a mischievous elflike being that lives in the woods, a creature of folklore similar to leprechauns, unicorns, mermaids and the Loch Ness Monster.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

Ministry wizards were flooding onto the field to separate the veela and the leprechauns, but with little success; meanwhile, the pitched battle below was nothing to the one taking place above.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling