Do leprechauns drink?

Is this like an assumption that we should be making?

I don't know that they're drunk.

They're social.

And this is the thing I find really fascinating about them,

is they are simultaneously very convivial guys.

But they're also, by their nature, elusive and hidden.

So they're also like kind of antisocial.

There's something very strange to me about this idea.

And again, I think for me, it has to do with the idea that what they're doing culturally is they're patrolling the bounds of proper social etiquette.

They are there to make sure you are acting right.

And if you don't, they're going to play a mean trick on you.

And if you do, they may give you a little bit of a little bit of treasure, maybe even a little bit of their gold.

They're both the person like throwing the house party and then also the person like drawing on you

and stacking cups on you when you've passed out. Yes. They are the they are the bounds of they're

both the party makers and the enforcers of like embarrassment

when you go one and too far.

Yeah.

I'm Dylan Thuris and this is Atlas of Skira,

a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

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