Leprechaun report

Here’s a thought experiment for you.  Take your classic leprechaun.  Now I want you to imagine that he’s going to put on a different suit of clothes.  Instead of the modern green jacket, we’re going to put him in a red jacket like some of the earliest stories say he actually wore.  Keep the same thick black belt with a big square buckle.  We’re going to replace the hat with a red stocking cap with fur trim.  Not much of a change, just the jacket and hat, but what do we have?  A Christmas elf. Hmm.  Lets change the color to Brown instead of red or green.  Now lets put them with old Rip Van Winkle.  I know he said they were the ghosts of Henry Hudson, but maybe not.  Maybe we have three sightings of the same basic critter in three different locations.

This goes on a lot with fairy folk.  People don’t stop to realize that we may not be talking about different creatures.  Just different names for the same creature.

It’s gets more interesting when you go back and look at the old stories and realize some of these are more like UFO sightings than campfire stories.  Respectable people who have seen something strange.  Well, as the Bard said.  There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. – Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio

Something to think about next time you hear about a Leprechaun and his pot of gold.

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