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media type="custom" key="802193" Leprechauns

===**Introduction - At about Saint Patrick`s Day, I wore green and sat in front of the TV. Every show that I planned to watch was themed Irish culture and their mythology, including Leprechauns. I started to skim through the channels finding Movies about Leprechauns. There were series of the movies. I watched through them as people became greedy and that was their problem. Then, when I got up to the third show, I noticed that the stories about them were all different. They kept saying that only a three leave clover, iron bars, and other leprechauns can kill a leprechaun. I started to tell myself the Leprechaun`s powers. I couldn`t think of any. I just realized that the only thing I knew was that they have a pot of gold and it`s under the rainbow. I wanted to know what they really are because advirtisers and TV will keep giving me the wrong message before I know the what they are known for.**===

===**Body - I went to school to find out if any of my friends would know about my topic or about the movie. Some of them knew the movie but didn`t think they needed to learn about it because they didn`t believe it. Thats the same way I thought, but then I realized that I didn`t actually know my topic as well as I should have. My peers were one of my research helpers. What I learned out of this was that there responses were mostly about the generalization of Lucky Charms Cereal. I went to "youtube" for some video`s about my topic. I searched "Leprechaun Sightings", there was one that came from Alabama. it was interesting, during Saint Patrick`s Day, people claimed to see the mythical creature. That was one of my best sources because it explains how unlike stories about them, real sightings may tell a different story. I learned that Leprechaun`s ironically only come out and night. When you use a flashlight, it will go away ironically. What is not so ironic is that Leprechauns find on trees.**=== ===I went to the internet to search for a Irish term. It was much more formal then what I found. They are considered Irish fairies and are protectors of riches. That part I wasn`t as suprised about. There was something suprising, the leprechaun family includes "Leprechauns" and "Cluricaun". Cluricauns are the mayhem type, which steals or borrows anything. They steal goats, cows and pigs and rides them through the night. That is why sometimes, leprechauns are considered evil.===

===**Conclusion - I learned that what I found proves that the video`s about them are not true except for the "Clurican". Leprechauns are not all good and it is beliviable if they turn bad. When you catch them, they will try to hurt you whenever possible. The movies are normaly over-doing their imagination. The commercials are kind of using their own ideas of how they are made. I did learn how to be tricked by a Leprechaun and how to stop it. I learned what rewards you will get from a leprechaun if you catch it, I just don`t know how to.**===


 * ===__Leprechauns__. 9 Apr. 2008. http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/. 10 Apr. 2008 <[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun>.]===


 * McIlvenna, Catherine, Jim Black, and Richard McVeigh, comps. __http://www.irelandseye.com/animation/explorer/leprechaun.html__. 10 Apr. 2008 <[|http://www.irelandseye.com/animation/explorer/leprechaun.html>.]