But then how are we to account for the little red-dressed men and women and the leprechauns?
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
And along with these, for they are very much akin, let us hear about ghosts-sometimes about ghosts who discover hidden treasure, as in our story of the Golden Image-about goblins, about various sorts of death-warnings generally coming from apparitions of the dead, or from banshees, about death-candles and phantom-funerals, about leprechauns, about hosts of the air, and all kinds of elementals and spirits-in short, about all the orders of beings who mingle together in that invisible realm called Fairyland.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
He skipped long paragraphs of pedantic jargon on theology, he scanned brief accounts of strange, blood-eating monsters, vrykolakes, and leprechauns.
"Doom of the House of Duryea"
Earl Peirce