No Female Leprechauns And Other Bizarre St. Patrick's Day Facts (VIDEO)

According to Irish folklore, there are no female leprechauns.

Leprechauns may wear green on St. Patrick's Day, but there's good reason for them to be blue: Irish folklore suggests there aren't any females.

An ancient book called "A History Of Irish Fairies" reveals that there are no evidence of there being a female leprechaun -- ever.

It gets worse: Some leprechaun experts speculate that the wee creatures are the offspring of fairies who were deemed "defective children...because of their shape and disposition," TheFW.com reported.

No word on how leprechauns reproduce either, but apparently they do, because an area called "The Sliabh Foy Loop" near the town of Carlingford is apparently home to 236 of them, and they are protected under European law, according to Irish Central.com.

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Comments

[BannedInBoston]

10:39 PM on 03/18/2012

An ancient book called "A History Of Irish _Fairies" reveals that there are no evidence of there being a female leprechaun -- ever.

Um. maybe that's why they're _fairies?...

[BannedInBoston]

10:30 PM on 03/18/2012

And those _damn kids are always after his Lucky Charms....

[ThanatosRW]

12:40 PM on 03/18/2012

Keep Lucky away from our children

[Siara]

12:18 PM on 03/18/2012

No females..... bet those guys aren't voting for Rick Santo

[Justgo4it]

12:44 PM on 03/18/2012

and I bet some aren't voted for your buddy either!

[BannedInBoston]

10:31 PM on 03/18/2012

Yah, I think _Romney probably has the leprechaun vote locked up....

[see-ellen2001]

08:53 AM on 03/18/2012

No women? Why assume the male wee folk want women....a big part of their culture is RAINBOWS.

[justgigging]

02:14 AM on 03/18/2012

No females...It be a wonder that the ole' Blarney Stones don't just turn Blue .. without the soaking of the Shalaylee in Cider...

[3dawgknight]

06:23 PM on 03/17/2012

And because there are no female Leprechauns, is why the males still have there pot of Gold!

[vtmilitia]

05:47 PM on 03/17/2012

At least the Smurfs had Smurfette.

[stilljustme]

05:04 PM on 03/17/2012

Ah the story of the two leprechauns.... Michel Fitzpatrick & Patrick Fitzmichel

[rewith85man]

03:22 PM on 03/17/2012

At least these stupid people are not discriminating.

[Justgo4it]

12:46 PM on 03/18/2012

do you actually believe in fairies, leprachauns? and how can they be stupid people if they don't actually exist.

[firstamendment3]

02:29 PM on 03/17/2012

Obviously, Leprechauns are an advanced race.

[ariesheart23]

10:18 AM on 03/17/2012

"Leprechauns may wear green on St. Patrick's Day, but there's good reason for them to be blue: Irish folklore suggests there aren't any females." No females? Now that's bad, however, if he lived in America, he would discover there are no males who are victims of female domestic violent attacks. Look at the violence against women's act, there are no strict laws against violence, because this laws restricts its use by protecting violent women under the violence against women's act.

[nicolesbunny88]

04:34 PM on 03/17/2012

You took a light article and are trying to make it into something more...stop it.

[ariesheart23]

09:56 AM on 03/18/2012

Take my comment "light." like a man would, since my comment had to be wrong about America, I don't want to ruin your day. Enjoy.

[Rscott0130]

07:49 PM on 03/17/2012

Say what?

[ariesheart23]

09:57 AM on 03/18/2012

Expecting a woman's retort, and got two men???

[Justgo4it]

07:45 PM on 03/18/2012

I am grown up. so now what's your excuse. btw stop making assumptions you can't back up!!

[Diana Bitritto]

08:32 AM on 03/17/2012

What do they call leprechauns in Israel? Leprecohens! (Oy)

[HellBank]

08:16 AM on 03/17/2012

I thought leprechauns mated with Irish red heads. Lucky devils.