Leprechauns by Bob Curran

Author:Bob Curran
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Adams Media

More Sinister Uses for Gold

Sometimes, leprechauns would use their immense wealth to entrap mortal souls. Not only would fairy money transform itself into dead leaves, acorns or ashes once the fairy influence had departed; accepting it could damn mortal souls to Hell. Consequently, some leprechauns who steadfastly hated humankind would try to force individuals to accept their coinage, in the hope that they would be so damned. Fairy money was sometimes slipped into ordinary change or given as a reward or payment for some service rendered. Money, therefore, should never be accepted from strangers, and each coin given as change should be thoroughly checked. To ignore this warning could have extremely grave consequences.

The notion of the leprechaun trying to send human souls to Hell closely allies the fairy with the Devil. Rather than being a jolly, drunken, mischievous sprite, the fairy becomes the agent of dark supernatural powers and the enemy of all right-living people.

Although he is primarily portrayed as a cobbler, then, the leprechaun has a number of professions within the fairy world, some of which impinge on the mortal world. He is, in effect, a jack of all trades; and with the weight of such responsibility on his shoulders, he might perhaps be forgiven for his drunkenness and for his surly moods. With such a complicated portfolio, after all, he might be described, in modern-day terms, as being one of the real captains of industry in the fairy world.

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