When I was about 7, my younger brother (4 at the time) came home from Preschool with a "Leprechaun Finder." It was a piece of cardstock cut into the shape of a clover with green celophane in the middle. He explained to me that if you looked through it, you could see Leprechauns. He led me around the whole yard and inside the house, telling me he could see them, but they always ran as soon as I asked to see them because they were scared of me.
At one point I got incredibly frustrated and said to him "Tell the Leprechaun I'm not going to hurt him. I just want to pet him!" (who knows why I wanted to "pet" a leprechaun). He looked up at me and laughed and explained that it was a joke, and he had gotten me good.
Now that I look back at it, I was a real moron to let my little brother pull the wool over my eyes.
A childhood belief about fairies
others believed things like this
- I had my mom buy a box of lucky charms because I thought the little leprechaun would be inside. — Catherine
- i used to think when i was like 5 or 6 that a leprechaun would crawl up into me when i was peeing.— anonymous
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.Anon
- i used to believe that my preschool teacher had eyes in the back of her head.Anon
- When I was younger, my brother told me the police had an infra-red system and could see into everyones house.— Clare, Ireland
- I used to believe green houses were made of icicles, because that is what they looked like from the road. Anon