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This is the adorable moment a seven-year-old girl thinks she's caught a 'leprechaun' in a trap after learning about St Patrick's Day at school.
Seven-year-old Gianna Galvan comes into her parent's living room clutching a cardboard popcorn box containing a 'frozen' leprechaun.
The youngster holds the box out for her parents revealing the green miniature plastic toy inside.
Mum Lauren Galvan decided to record the video because of Gianna's reaction to what was inside the box.
'She was just so happy and excited,' she said.
'He looks like Frankenstein!,' the child exclaimed excitedly gesturing inside the box to her amused parents.
'She came home from school where she had learnt about St. Patrick's Day and she wanted to build a leprechaun trap.'
Lauren explained that her Gianna's dad John helped her build the makeshift trap out of a cardboard box and used a trail of tiny gold coins as bait to lure the mythical creature.
They then told her that the leprechauns come out at night when the lights are turned off.
Seven-year-old Gianna Galvin made a trap out of a cardboard popcorn box and used tiny pots of gold to lure the mythical creature inside
Dad John helps little Gianna make her cardboard 'trap' to catch the leprechaun
In the footage, the little girl eagerly shows her parents her find but doesn't want to lift the lid of the box 'in case the leprechaun gets out'.
'Can I touch it?,' she asks her parents.
'Google can I touch it?', she says to which her parents respond that she can because the leprechaun becomes frozen once it gets into the box.
Believing that leprechauns are real, Lauren says that they’ll keep adding them to the box until St. Patrick's day when they’ll tell Gianna that they need to release them at night.
The cardboard trap's aim was to lure a leprechaun inside with a sign saying 'free money' and a trail of gold coins, pictured right
(Photo by ©Trimark Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection)
March 17 marks St. Patrick’s Day, the global celebration of one of Ireland’s most beloved patron saints. In Dublin, they go to church to mark the occasion (and then to the pub). In Boston, they dye the river green. At Rotten Tomatoes, well, we’re taking a different approach.
To celebrate the greenest day of the year — OK, it may have some competition from World Environment Day — we’re celebrating one of the greenest franchises in Rotten Tomatoes history, and one with an Irish heritage, if not any particularly genuine Irish flavor. The seven-entry Leprechaun franchise might be one of the most splat-worthy franchises in horror movie history, with a huge four entries sitting at 0% on the Tomatometer and not a single entry over 33%. The franchise earns an average of 11.57% on the Tomatometer per movie.
(On the plus side, if you add all seven films together they have a total Tomatometer of 81%.)
But which Leprechaun outing is the absolute greenest of the lot? We’re counting them down.
The addition of Coolio and Ice-T proved the lucky charm that got the franchise to its highest point.
“It’s not a very good film in any way, but it manages to be average, and that alone makes it a franchise standout.” – Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy
Ice-T did not return to the hood, leaving a blinged-up Warwick Davis to terrorize Sticky Fingaz, of Onyx, instead.
“We now live in a world in which there are six Leprechaun movies.” – Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
The original, but not the best. Like a certain plucky little monster pursuing his pot of gold, this one has followed star Jennifer Aniston, who made her film debut here, around for decades.
“The perfect high-concept comedic slasher, and it’s still Jennifer Aniston’s best film to date.” – Luke Y. Thompson, New Times
The legend continued, inexplicably, with this first sequel that earned the franchise its first big fat 0%.
“It’s no Leprechaun in the Hood, but then, what is?” – Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress
Still looking for a wife, the Leprechaun hits Sin City. Not a lucky move for the audience.
“The directness with which this went to video is apparent in nearly every single element.” – Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy
We can just imagine the pitch meeting: What if we rebooted this thing and took out the one thing that was legitimately awesome about it? Turns out WWE star Dylan “Hornswoggle” Postle is no Warwick Davis.
“Davis’s performance, his sense of theatricality, and his villainous make-up are deeply missed.” – Brian Orndorf, blu-ray.com
The greenest of the green, this movie just pips past the series reboot to take the title of Worst with an average critic rating of 1.5 out of 10. In space, no one wants to hear you go on about your f—ing pot of gold, apparently.
“The best movie about a leprechaun in space i have seen in years…” – Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is
Check out clips from all of the Leprechaun movies.
