Down in the hollows, hiding just out of sight, the wee folk are watching our every move. And despite their size, these little beings can bring about an incredible amount of destruction.

But were the wee folk always thought of as so sinister? And do they think of humans as being just as magical as we think of them?

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Sources and Further Reading

Leprechauns

• Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, by Thomas Crofton Croker
• Irish Wonders, by D. R. McAnally
• Revue Celtique, by Whitley Stokes
• “Another Illusion Shattered: “leprechaun” not native Irish” in Language Log

King Fergus and the Wee Folk

• The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T. W. Rolleston
• Silva Gadelica, by Standish Hayes O’Grady
• The Saga of Fergus Mac Létí, translated by D. A. Binchy

Music

• The Butterfly by Sláinte
•  The King of the Fairies – The Dubliners
• The King of the Fairies – Alan Stivell
• Lunassa by Aislinn
• The Banshee. Gravel Walks. The Old Copperplate – Sláinte
• Gander in the Pratie Hole, Morrison’s Jig, Drowsy Maggie – Sláinte