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

“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

Dinklage has used his platform to fight Hollywood depictions of dwarfs as leprechauns or elves, and he’s pushed back against society’s tendency to highlight “the cutesiness of little people.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2022

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

Raucous singing was borne toward them on the night air as they retraced their steps along the lantern-lit path, and leprechauns kept shooting over their heads, cackling and waving their lanterns.

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