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a one-man shoe sweatshop hoarding gold while you chase a refractive trick of the rain
means A small mischievous fairy of Irish folklore, often depicted as a solitary shoemaker who guards a hidden pot of gold and must reveal its location if you catch and hold him.
from From the Irish 'leipreachán', going back to Old Irish 'luchorpán' — a tidy little compound of 'lú' (small) and 'corp' (body), itself borrowed from Latin 'corpus'. So at root the word simply means 'tiny body'. The shoemaking trade may come from a folk link to 'leath bhrógán', 'maker of one shoe', though that connection is uncertain and possibly a later reshaping of the name.
- day job
- cobbler making fairy footwear, hence the name's old roots
- gold loophole
- forced to grant wishes, master of malicious compliance
- solo act
- folklore insists they are always male and alone
- rainbow scam
- no end exists, so the gold stays uncatchable
- horror career
- starred in eight slasher films, including one in space
lucky the leprechaun — mascot of general mills' lucky charms cereal since 1962
leprechaun of dublin — statue in temple bar, dublin, ireland, tourist attraction since 1988