A leprechaun is a diminutive supernatural being of Irish folklore, classed by some as a type of solitary fairy. Leprechauns are usually depicted as small bearded men wearing a coat and hat who take part in mischief, and in later tradition they became associated with shoemaking and with a hidden pot of gold kept at the end of a rainbow. Leprechaun-like figures rarely appear in the earliest layers of Irish mythology and became prominent only in later folklore.
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SymbolSourced to the subject's own accountLeprechauns are usually depicted as little bearded men wearing a coat and hat, and in later tradition as shoemakers with a hidden pot of gold, the hat and pot this atlas's glyph draws on. 1 Connections
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Both figures belong to the same live Celtic-paganism tradition record and are commonly discussed together as members of the Irish fairy (Aos Si) folklore corpus.
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1. Leprechaun (Wikipedia)
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usually depicted as little bearded men, wearing a coat and hat, who partake in mischief. In later times, they have been depicted as shoe-makers who have a hidden pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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