Leprechaun

Leprechaun
Etymology


The word "leprechaun" comes from the Irish "leipreachán", defined by Patrick Dinninom * as "dwarf", "pygmy", "elf". According to most sources, the term is a distorted form of sredneirlandskogo ** "luchrupán", in turn descended from staroirlandskogo *** "luchorpán", where you can trace the roots of the combination "lú" (small) and "corp" (body).

Alternate spelling "leithbrágan" comes from the word "leith" (half) and "bróg" (brogue). This is due to the widespread image of leprechauns as a cobbler, working only with one (left) shoe.



English versions are writing "lubrican", "leprehaun" and "lepreehawn". Some modern Irish books use a form of "lioprachán".

In English, the term was first used in 1604 in the second part of the comedy Thomas Dekker's "The Honest Whore" (translation will not lead). In this work, one of the characters refers to the Irish shoemaker Brian lyubrikanom ("lubrican").

Folklore


The first known reference to the leprechaun appears in the medieval tale "Echtra Fergus mac Léti" ("The Adventures of Fergus, son of Fly"). In the text there is an episode in which Fergus, King of Ulster, falls asleep on the beach and after a dream finds itself at the bottom of the sea, where he dragged three leprechauns ("lúchorpáin"). As a result, Fergus caught the kidnappers, who promised to fulfill three wishes in exchange for freedom.



Leprechaun typically as isolated man living in establishing and repairing shoes. William Butler Yates **** saying that leprechauns found and appropriated potted treasures that were buried in the old days (in many sources I have encountered version of the riches of the Vikings at the time to raid the territory of Ireland).

Appearance


Leprechaun appearance depends on what part of Ireland they inhabit. Until the 20th century it was believed that these creatures are red instead of green clothing. In 1831, Samuel ***** Lauer wrote:

"... A lot of panache to the leprechaun outfit - red vest straight cut, richly decorated with gold braid, trousers to match, high hat and shoes with buckles


According to Yates, leprechauns wear red jackets, while the other creatures of the people are green fairy. The jacket leprechaun seven rows of buttons. Yates says that leprechauns living on the west coast of Ireland, have on his jacket lace and in Ulster this is narodec tall hats, and being in a mischievous mood, tends to jump the wall and spinning, balancing on the top of his hat.


"... The growth of about three feet (90 cm), wearing a red vest or short jacket, red pants to the knee, gray or black stockings
old-hat. Around his neck - fluted Elizabethan collar, lace ruffles around the wrists. "



On the wild west coast, where the Atlantic winds bring constant rain, leprechauns do without collars and lace. Instead, they wear wool coat over his red suit. So you can not learn the way you meet a leprechaun until you make out his tall hat.


It is believed that in addition living in different parts of Ireland Leprechaun different:

~ ~ ~ Northern leprechauns ("logheryman") are "red uniforms of the military type, white pants, wide-brimmed hats high, where they can sometimes stand upside down"

~ ~ ~ Leprechaun Tipperary (Tipperary, a small Irish town in the south of the island), which in this area is called "lurigadawne", put
vintage red jackets with cuts and jockey hats. They carry swords, they use for magic.

~ ~ ~ Lurikony ("luricawne", one of the names Leprechaun) from Kerry (county in Ireland) - "fat little men, whose cheerful round faces on the red can posoperchinat with their jackets, which are always seven rows of seven buttons."

~ ~ ~ Klurikony ("cluricawne") Monaghan (Monaghan, a town in Ireland) are usually red evening dress coats with green vest, white pants, black stockings, "shiny shoes, tall conical hat with a wide brim


The poem of the 18th century "Leprechaun" ("The Lepracaun") or "magic shoemaker" ("Fairy Shoemaker") Irish poet William Elling (William Allingham) describes the appearance leprechaun:

"... Bearded elf with many wrinkles, pointy glasses on his nose, silver buckles, leather apron, in the hem - shoe ..."



The modern way of sitting on a toadstool red-bearded leprechaun in a green hat, probably borrowed from European folklore.
Related Creatures


Klurikony ("clurichaun") and headlights darrigi ("far darrig") - being related Leprechaun his penchant for privacy. Some writers even replace these creatures to leprechauns in their stories and stories in order to get a large audience of readers.

It is believed that klurikon - leprechaun in this drunken carouse (Yates, "Fairy and folk beliefs of Irish peasants" - "Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry").

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It is believed that a person can lead leprechaun in anger, breaking thorns, killing a robin or try to take his treasure. In such cases, small shoemakers certainly show their vindictive nature. So be careful and do not hurt narodec fabulous.
Finally, I will give the legend of the leprechaun Irish peasants

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Leprechaun - a little liar



"Once long ago an Irish villager walked across the yard to the stable to ask his horse feed, suitable and hears someone singing a song in the stable, but like a hammer taps: tap, tap, tap, tap - just like shoemakers, when shoes stitch. He listened - singing and rapping do not stop.

"Uh - he thought - yes it probably leprechaun - who should be the other? Steal me just for him on the sly, so grab it will take away the bag that he carries on his belt - so if and start living! ".

No sooner said than done: villager quietly entered the stable, crept to the stall where a song is heard leprechaun, looked at him and saw that at the feet of his horse sits a tiny little man in a red cap with a hammer in one hand and a small shoe in other, and quietly humming to himself a song. Villager carefully bent down and grabbed the leprechaun with both hands.

- Well, now I do not go away! - He shouted. - Do not be stingy, give the purse for you! Well!
- Wait, I give - leprechaun replied very calmly, - let me just untie it from the belt!

Villager and believed him, his arms, and he laughed and even gone ... He only left behind a slipper that villager with grief put it in his pocket and then got rid of a sheer trifle. "
The Way of Halloween. Ghosts Lawrence.
House - where the heart is, right? And there where the spirit - if you are a native of Lawrence.

Lawrence - a popular place for all kinds of ghosts.

Hmmm, where to start b ... How about Stull Cemetery? In America, full of cemeteries in which ghosts roam. Why is that?

It's simple: the burial places of a fig and a small wagon train was dead people and some irresponsible individuals from these same dead rest in peace by no means wish.


"Hunter scum" had ustakanivaetsya all kinds of ghosts and other supernatural pogantsev at various cemeteries.

However, some cemeteries are particularly active. One of these - the Bachelor Grove (Knight's Tomb) in Chicago, the habitat of one of the varieties of "Women in White" and victims of gang fights since Prohibition. In New Orleans, the cemetery is found another number one, "The Woman in White", also known as Vanishing fellow traveler. Old York Cemetery in York, Maine, one of the few places with the good in the world of ghost with a motor - most likely, it is the spirit of the local wise woman, who died in 1774, but is still a swing and sway with rebyatni to nearest cemetery playground. Makkonen cemetery in Alabama sheltered ghost soldiers during the Civil War, and Justice cemetery in Illinois - home Risen Mary, one of the most famous in the country Endangered fellow traveler.



There are others, so many of them that do not count. However, Stull Cemetery is famous not only "obsessed" church, but also demonic manifestations, and for the full set, and even ghostly kids. The church was abandoned in 1922 and stood for a long time with a broken roof, but rain can not get into it. A crucifix that still hangs on the wall, rolls over, go to the temple when some visitors. That's mean - horror!

In the city center the hotel is located Eldridge whose base is the cornerstone of the remainder of the building was destroyed in the shameful attack cavalry Kvantrilla 1863. Then Konfideratsii guerrillas broke into Lawrence and massacred more than two hundred men and boys. Of course, that was not the worst thing that happened during the Civil War, but this was more than enough. Now Eldrizhd - sweet home for all kinds of ghosts, and only the fifth floor in particular. Alive the stories of temperature changes, steamed from the "breathing" of the mirrors and multiple hauntings. Keep in mind, each guest who shares the views of the Confederates, who has managed to stay in room 506, will spend unforgettable sleepless at night.

There are Haskelsky Indian National University, where every building is buzzing with the ghosts of the abundance of Indian children died there over the years. The University can not take a step, so that the performance of your EMF off scale. The school, founded in order to deprive the children of the Indians of their national heritage, and dilute them to the other nations, the cruelty was the norm. It even has its own cemetery, where the local shamans for many years trying to calm the children's souls, but they are buried, not all of the body. In stores kanzaskogo University are several children's skeletons in Haskell. No one knows who they were in life and how to die, but you know what? Maybe one day they will declare this publicly.