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

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

Much of the work that came his way was playing leprechauns, Santa’s elves and other kinds of elves, all roles he refused.

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

Harry looked quickly over the top of his Omnioculars and saw that the leprechauns watching from the sidelines had all risen into the air again and formed the great, glittering shamrock.

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