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

“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

McKenna, a gold sceptic no more, is a community relations manager for the mining company Dalradian Gold, and instead of leprechauns he envisages licences, drilling and jobs.

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