{"id":200,"date":"2007-01-30T14:14:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T19:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/200-leprechauns"},"modified":"2013-01-19T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T21:45:03","slug":"leprechauns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/200-leprechauns\/","title":{"rendered":"Leprechauns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leprechaun\"Leprechauns, small in stature and dressed in green, are also thought to be the guardians of an ancient treasure.\u00a0 Perhaps the Danes left the treasure when they were passing through Ireland long ago.\u00a0 In fact, some believe they may have buried the treasure in crocks or pots, hence the tales of crocks of gold.<\/p>\n

It is believed by many people and has been for many years that leprechauns are the shoemakers of the Irish.\u00a0 In fact, some believe that the name, Leprechaun, comes from the Irish for shoemaker, leath bhrogan.\u00a0 The name may have originated in the Leinster area of the country.\u00a0 At any rate, the leprechauns are noted for being excellent shoemakers among other things.<\/p>\n

However, it is thought that Leprechauns must avoid contact with humans in order not to divulge the whereabouts of the treasure, which is thought to be of great monetary value.\u00a0 Hence, the Leprechauns are fleet of foot and constantly hiding from the humans who seek them out in hopes of tricking them into revealing the whereabouts of this treasure.\u00a0 Leprechauns consider humans to be foolish and greedy, and, by all accounts, many humans are.
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\nLeprechauns carry two separate leather pouches with them at all times.\u00a0 One of them contains a magical silver coin, a shilling.\u00a0 Each time the coin is used for payment of something, it magically returns to the pouch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the second pouch, a gold coin is held.\u00a0 The leprechaun may use this coin in an attempt to bribe his way out of a difficulty.\u00a0 However, if he does give the coin away, it suddenly changes form and changes into something of little value such as ashes.<\/p>\n

As you can see, leprechauns have a mysterious aura of magic about them.\u00a0 For the most part, however, leprechauns are considered good folk who are simply attempting to hold to the task that was entrusted to them, protection of the treasure.\u00a0 They do have a favorite drink, poteen, which can get them a bit tipsy should they imbibe a bit too much.<\/p>\n

Within the family of leprechauns, one will also find the cluricauns.\u00a0 The cluricauns are known to be rabble rousers who will create mayhem at a moment’s notice.\u00a0 They delight in borrowing anything their little minds set themselves to and they especially like to raid larders and cellars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leprechauns, small in stature and dressed in green, are also thought to be the guardians of an ancient treasure.\u00a0 Perhaps the Danes left the treasure when they were passing through Ireland long ago.\u00a0 In fact, some believe they may have buried the treasure in crocks or pots, hence the tales of crocks of gold. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}