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The modern image of the leprechaun sitting on a toadstool, having a red beard and green hat, etc. is a more modern invention, or borrowed from other strands of European folklore. [39] The most likely explanation for the modern day Leprechaun appearance is that green is a traditional national Irish color dating back as far as 1642. [40]
Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.
Numerous witnesses identified the Crichton Leprechaun as a local resident named "Midget Sean," a person of short stature. The interviewers met the man, who recounted the story as a prank played on the local community, in which he dressed in a leprechaun suit and climbed a tree while his friends alerted others about a leprechaun sighting. [11] [12]
This is a fairly common cautionary tale concerning the phenomenon; however, the ignis fatuus was not always considered dangerous. Some tales present the will-o'-the-wisp as a treasure-guardian, leading those brave enough to follow it to certain riches - a form of behaviour sometimes ascribed also to the Irish leprechaun. Other stories tell of ...
Donohue syndrome (also known as leprechaunism) is an extremely rare and severe genetic disorder. Leprechaunism derives its name from the hallmark elvish features (small stature, bulging eyes, thick lips, and upturned nostrils) exhibited by the affected individuals.
Leprechaun economics (Irish: eacnamaíocht Leipreacháin) was a term coined by economist Paul Krugman to describe the 26.3 per cent rise in Irish 2015 GDP, later revised to 34.4 per cent, [a] in a 12 July 2016 publication by the Irish Central Statistics Office (CSO), restating 2015 Irish national accounts.
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Crichton Leprechaun, a news story of a purported leprechaun in Mobile, Alabama; Kobold, (occasionally cobold) is a sprite stemming from Germanic mythology and surviving into modern times in German folklore; Leprechaun economics, a term coined by Paul Krugman for Ireland's 2015 26.3% GDP growth rate; Leprecon (disambiguation)