All You Need to Know About Life
You Can Learn from a Leprechaun
When you're happy -- SING.
When you're sad -- sing LOUDER!
Expect magic to happen...and it will.
If you're needing a wee bit more of confidence, don the leprechaun's
red frock coat, swagger, and carry a big shillelagh.
When you're feeling wintery-gray--wear lots of GREEN and carry shamrocks.
Life is too short for long faces.
If you can't find a rainbow, PAINT your own RAINBOW.
The word "impossible" is NOT an Irish-Faery word.
Believe in impossible things just long enough to make them come true.
Never walk so tall that you can't notice the "wee folk."
Take pride in your craftmanship; leprechauns are master cobblers making the finest shoes for the faery folk.
Everyone could use a drink with good friends at night, or a warm cup a tea on a cold morrning, and maybe wee bit of mischief from time to time.
Never try to catch a leprechaun, you'll end up lookin the fool.
The Irish faerie folk known as leprechauns are not often discussed in Wicca. There is much discussion about the Tuatha de Danann and the
Sidhe, who live in the hollow hills--but not much talk about the leprechauns. Nevertheless, leprechauns are mentioned in America every
March around the 17th. So the above is nothing but a wee bit of Irish American humor involving leprechauns. And ye might best not be
believin' it too much. (Or maybe you should.)
--Myth Woodling, March 16, 2015
Sources:
Ross Bonander,
5 Things You Didn’t Know: Leprechauns, accessed March 11, 2014.
Brandi, How To Make A Leprechaun Trap, 2012, accessed March 11, 2014.
Loma Balian, Leprechauns Never Lie, 1990.
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