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
Gnomes and shrooms go together like leprechauns and pots of gold, so pair this funky fungus with your chillest gnomie.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 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
“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
The leprechauns, who had risen angrily into the air like a swarm of glittering hornets when Mullet had been fouled, now darted together to form the words “HA, HA, HA!”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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