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Irish myths and traditional Irish stories give you the insights into the magic past in Ireland when you could meet a Leprechaun or a Banshee just round the corner!

However, in times of our consume society the best and most authentic of these stories got lost in a bulk of kitsch created by people looking to adjust the Irish history to what customers want to buy

To get the real value, it is crucial that these stories are narrated in the spirit of Irish history and by a genuine Irish story teller who understands the traditions of this lovely country.

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Leprechauns rarely appear in what would be classed as a folk tale; in almost all cases the interest of these stories centres round a human hero. Stories about leprechauns are generally very brief and generally have local names and scenery attached to them. The tales are usually told conversationally as any other occurrence might be told, whereas there is a certain solemnity about the repetition of a folk-tale proper.

In most tales and stories leprechauns are depicted as generally harmless creatures who enjoy solitude and live in remote locations, although opinion is divided as to if they ever enjoy the company of other spirits. Although rarely seen in social situations, leprechauns are supposedly very well spoken and, if ever spoken to, could make good conversation.

Among the most popular of beliefs about leprechauns is that they are extremely wealthy and like to hide their gold in secret locations, which can only be revealed if a person were to actually capture and interrogate a leprechaun for its money.

By nature, leprechauns are said to be ill-natured and mischievous, with a mind for cunning. Many tales present the leprechaun as outwitting a human, as in the following examples.

It is said Leprechauns are from hell and get their powers from their gold which gets its power from satan.

Another tale of the leprechans origin is in the time of yore, the king of ireland used earth magic to bring forth little men (leprechauns) to protect his gold and punish those who dare to steal it.

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A farmer or young lad captures a leprechaun and forces him to reveal the location of his buried treasure. The leprechaun assures him that the treasure is buried in an open field beneath a particular ragwort plant. The farmer ties a red ribbon to the plant, first extracting a promise from the leprechaun not to remove the ribbon. Releasing the leprechaun, he leaves to get a shovel. Upon his return he finds that every weed in the field has been tied with an identical red ribbon, thus making it impossible to find the treasure.

In another story, a young girl finds a leprechaun and bids him show her the location of his buried money. She takes him up in her hand and sets out to find the treasure, but all of a sudden she hears a loud buzzing behind her. The leprechaun shouts at her that she is being chased by a swarm of bees, but when she looks around there are no bees and the leprechaun has vanished.

In other stories they are told of riding shepherds' dogs through the night, leaving the dogs exhausted and dirty in the morning. It is said that at the end of a rainbow, you may find a leprechaun and his treasured pot of gold.

Learn More about Leprechauns

There are a number of possible etymologies of the name leprechaun. One of the most widely accepted theories is that the name comes from the Irish word leipreachán, defined by Dinneen as a pigmy, a sprite, a leprechaun; for luchorpán; the latter word Dinneen defines as a pigmy, a leprechaun; a kind of aqueous sprite'; this word has also been identified as meaning half-bodied, or small-bodied. This is the etymology given in the Collins English Dictionary.

The word which is widely believed to be the root and one of the ones quoted by the Oxford English Dictionary is luchorpán. An alternative derivation for the name and another one quoted by the Oxford English Dictionary, is leath bhrógan, meaning shoe-maker the leprechaun is known as the fairy shoemaker of Ireland and is often portrayed working on a single shoe. Another derivation has the word leprechaun deriving from luch-chromain, meaning little stooping Lugh, Lugh being the name of a leader of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

The word leprechaun was first recorded used in the English language in 1604 in Middleton and Dekker 's The Honest Whore as lubrican. The original meaning was of some kind of spirit and not specifically associated with the Irish mythological character;

As for your Irish Leprican, that spirit whom by preposterous charms thy lust has raised.

Some alternative spellings of the word leprechaun that have been used throughout the ages are: leprechawn, lepracaun and lubberkin. The word leprehaun has also been used.

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So What Is a Real Seanachai?

The Seanachaithe made use of a range of storytelling conventions, styles of speech and gestures that were peculiar to the Irish folk tradition and characterized them as practitioners of their art. Although tales from literary sources found their way into the repertoires of the Seanachaithe, a traditional characteristic of their art was the way in which a large corpus of tales was passed from one practitioner to another without ever being written down.

Because of their role as custodians of an indigenous non-literary tradition, the Seanachaithe are widely acknowledged to have inherited although informally the function of the filí of pre-Christian Ireland.

Some Seanachaithe were itinerants, traveling from one community to another offering their skills in exchange for food and temporary shelter. Others, however, were members of a settled community and might be termed village storytellers.

The distinctive role and craft of the seanchaí is particularly associated with the Gaeltacht (the Irish-speaking areas of Ireland ), although storytellers recognizable as Seanachaithe were also to be found in rural areas throughout English-speaking Ireland . In their storytelling, some displayed archaic Hiberno-English idiom and vocabulary distinct from the style of ordinary conversation.