Little People

Follow the rainbow to the end to find your gold pot, which was left by a leprechaun, at least that is the modern American version. One of the most famous Irish myths is, of course, the Leprechauns. Now when the Catholics added their spin on the old Irish legend, the tale goes in the Catholic faith. When the sides were being chosen in heaven, God’s first Angel (Lucifer), there were many factions of angels that did not want to side with God or Lucifer. One was the Cherubs; the other was one without a name. We know them as Leprechauns. Those angels were merrymakers; their sole purpose was to give human merriment, joy, and mischief. None of those factions were warriors, which is why they chose to remain neutral, but unlike the cherubs whose sole purpose was to bring human love. The Leprechaun sect of angels as the war was finished, God said, and you did not fight, I did care if you joined Lucifer. Thus they were punished by banishment. God said to the Leprechaun leader the only thing that God gave them as he felt pity for them because to choose to fight in the war would go against their nature. God knew their nature since he created them, as he is omniscient. He allowed them to choose where on Earth to be banished. All of that sect of Angels and their leader knew that only one place on Earth would feel at home, as they could roam free and do what they wanted as humans were not in that area, the land of Eire (Modern day Ireland, and Eire means freedom).

They covet gold because it is the one thing that God purely creates. As banished, they cannot feel God’s presence like they could in heaven; it is their closest connection to God. In addition, they are known as the working class of angels as they help build heaven and are given a human assistant building, yet God deems that they can’t interfere with humans directly. For example, It has to be like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, helping in an unseen or the background as long as they were in heaven, before banishment. As humans settled in Ireland, legend states they helped create the clan, but they still had to bow down to humans for humans are God’s greatest creation. So they had to move to caves, brooks, shadows, and dales (glean, grove) as humans took their land and ability to roam which is the reason why they are so hard to find today.

The Leprechaun tale continues on with King O’Brian, who created the rules all Leprechauns must follow and swear loyalty to when they were first banished. One of the rules was that if you were caught by a human you had to grant a wish, as angels had powers, and that you always look like a leprechaun as humans cannot know you are an angel. According to the Catholics, these angels were 6’ talk, 6 wings, the onset of the wings were fiery, but when they traveled to earth to create merriment or as the workforce they always sunk down to the guise of leprechaun size. Until 100 to 200 BC there was a split between the Leprechauns as the human Clans began to take shape all over Ireland some became fans of different clans and they began to swear fidelity to those clans rather than their King.

Some clans knew they had Leprechauns fighting with them, as the leaders abused their angelic powers to destroy their enemies. Those Leprechauns were tired of the abuse and went to King O’brian seeking his aid to be rid of their human masters, yet the King stated made your bed now lie in it. He created a new rule which came from St. Michael the Archangel, that God said if you swear loyalty to the human clan, you must serve them wherever they go, whatever they do for all eternity.

So if you want to catch a leprechaun or at least spot one, leave out buttermilk whisky, a dram, and your shoes on your back doorstep, just before you go to bed and find the whisky gone and your shoes fixed and clean come morning.