Irish Gothic Bites : The Leprechaun

Whilst Chris and Spence work away to prepare to delve into Cú Chulainn on next week’s episode, we have enlisted a very special guest to fill in this week - Spence’s daughter, Eliza. Listen in to hear this fun tale of our little green friend, and let us know in the comments if you believe in leprechauns too ! We will be back next week with our full length episode on origins of the hero of the Ulster Cycle…

The Irish Gothic Podcast explores the origins of Irish Folk tales. myths and legends in all their dark, fantastical glory and how these vivid yarns continue to resonate across the world to this very day. 

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Transcript

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I know all the folks round these arts and parts. Can't say I know you. Leastways. Not yet. But I dare say I know what you'll be wanting. Some of the crack, maybe. How we yarn with your sup, is it? No harm in that. Come on over. Warm yourself, hmm? I'll warn you though. If it's the old Begara and Blarney shenanigans you're after, you'll not hear them from me. Well, if such, like, pleases you, you sit on. I'll fill your ears. And see what story is meant for you. On this dark old night.

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I'm Chris

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I'm Spence

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And this is the Irish Gothic Podcast.

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Welcome to Irish Gothic bite-sized. For those of you may not know, this is a little short episodes that we put out between our longer episodes, and it's also a very, very special one because it's the first time we've had a guest on the Irish Gothic podcast. You may recall a few weeks ago we'd done a leprechauns episode, and during that episode, Chris told the story of a farmer encountering a leprechaun. Now weirdly, in his chance would have it. That evening when I was putting my little daughter to bed, her bedtime storybook had the exact same story in it. So we thought it would be quite interesting to revisit that story and have our special guest, Eliza, to tell the story for you folks. So settle in for the story of the leprechaun. One fine day, a car man called Tom was walking along. When he heard a strange noise, tick tac tick, t tick. Ack Tom stopped to listen this time. He heard a song sing and stitch sing and stitch a pot of chord to make you rich tom looked through the long grass as he saw a very strange sight. A touchy witchy, witchy man with a chy witchy hammer, making some titchy witchy shoes. He was a leprechaun. Leprechauns are the clever little Irish shelves who make all the shoes for the fairies, so knew that it was good luck to see one, because if he asked, they had to take you to your buried pot of gold. Tom didn't like looking after the cars and he thought. How good it would be to have a pot of gold and do nothing all day. But Tom had to be very clever for leprechauns, have a trick they like to play. If you look away even for a second, a leprechaun disappears. So Tom watched the little leprechaun never tick his eyes off. Him as a cat will watch a mouse. Good day to you. My fine friend said Tom. Good day to You entered the leprechaun. How is the work asked Tom? Look, after your own work entered the leprechaun. Your caught are running all over the corn field and eating the corn. Tom was about to look around, but just in time he remembered. Never take your eyes off a leprechaun. He got hold of the little man, take me to a buried pot of gold where I will feed you to my cow. He said, oh, please don't do that to the leprechaun. I'll take you to the pot of gold. So off they went. Tom Field, he held onto the leprechaun as they went across the field. At last, they came to a great big field of thistles. The leprechaun put into a big thistle and said, dig down under that thistle, and you'll find a pot of gold buried there. The ground was very hard and Tom needed a speed, but if he went home to get one, how would he know which thistle was which? When he came back, then he had an idea. He took off one of his bright red socks and put it on the thistle Promise that you will not take that red sock off the thistle, and I will let you go. Said Tom. I promise that the leprechaun knew that a leprechaun had to keep a promise, so he let the leprechaun go and went running home to get a speed. When he got he, he went back to the field of thistles, but what did he find? Every thistle in the field had a bright red sock on it. Just like Tom's oom, Tom ran from Thistle thistle, but he couldn't dig under them all. So Tom went home very unhappy. He never became rich and he never saw a leprechaun again. Although he always listens out for the song, sing and Stitch, sing and Stage Your Apart Go to make you Rich. Wow, Eliza, thank you. That was super. I bet you everybody listening is giving you a big round of applause and they'll send some likes, I'm sure, onto the site. Hey, do you believe in leprechauns? Yes. Yeah, of course you do. Well, that's some folks. That's it from Irish Golf. It's just a little bite side episode. We'll be back on all your usual places you get your podcast with the next full length episode. Take care. Looks like your story has found you. I wish It were another. But what's meant for you, won't go by you. I'm sorry. Ach, now. No need to look so scared, eh? Enjoy the fire. Have a sop. Sure. Is it all just Irish Gothic? All just Irish Gothic.

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