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Cluricaun
He's
a Leprechaun after he's finished work for the day. Cluricauns raid
wine cellars and torture sheep and dogs by riding them like horses
in the moonlight.
These Irish fairies look after inns, keeping mainly to the wine
cellars and resembling miniature innkeepers with their of stockings,
silver buckled shoes, white shirts and aprons, and red caps. In a
well run establishment, the cluricaun will only take his fair share
of food and drink, but in a badly run inn, he will gobble the food
and swallow the drink in such quantities that the landlord will soon
be put out of business. A cluricaun may also steal from the cellar
of man who is fond of wine, and if he drinks too much the house will
never be free of the sound of breaking bottles, drunken shouts and
songs, and general tumult as he blunders around the cellar. If this
should happen, the homeowner should simply cut off the cluricaun's
supply of drink. After a while, he will seek more hospitable
quarters, and become another drinker's problem. In England, they are
known as buttery spirits.
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