leprechaun
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A leprechaun costume at Notre Dame might seem silly, but Parker said Bowden owned it.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025
There’s probably a little leprechaun one for St. Patrick’s Day.
From Slate • May 30, 2024
The ends of the rainbows touched down in the rolling fields below me, no place green enough to hide a leprechaun but a fair swap for living with rattlers.
From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022
A clock still hung on the wall, but most everything else lay in tatters on the sodden grass: a flower pot, socks, a festive tinsel leprechaun.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022
The leprechaun bears live young and lives mostly in forest and woodland areas, though it enjoys attracting Muggle attention and as a consequence features almost as heavily as the fairy in Muggle literature for children.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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