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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.
Image Credit: Pixabay CCO Creative Commons
Ireland is known for many things — its rich history, lush green landscapes, and of course, St. Patrick’s Day. Celebrated annually on March 17, the holiday gained prominence in the early-20th century as a religious feast day. However, it is now widely recognized as a celebration of Irish and Irish-American culture with fun traditions that include hunting for leprechauns, feasting on corned beef, and donning bright green clothing.
Meet St. Patrick
St. Patrick (Photo Credit: ncregister.com
While St. Patrick’s Day is one of Ireland’s most anticipated holidays, the clergyman, whose death anniversary it marks, was from the west coast of modern-day England. Born around 385 AD as Maewyn Succat, he was kidnapped by pirates at the age of sixteen and brought to work as a sheepherder in Ireland. Fortunately, the teenager managed to escape and return home six years later. After spending 15 years in a monastery, the now renamed Patricius ("Father of the Citizens") returned to Ireland to introduce Christianity to the country’s mostly pagan population. Though historians disagree if he died in 461 AD or 493 AD, there is little dispute that it was on March 17. Over the next few centuries, as tales of his achievements, including driving out all snakes from Ireland spread, Patrick, once an unknown bishop, transformed into a legendary figure. By the seventh century, he had been elevated to the primary patron saint of Ireland, an honor he shares with just two other saints – Brigit of Kildare and Columba.
Why Turn Green?
Photo Credit : thepipe26 (Flickr: St. Patricks day 2013-2.jpg) [CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Though wearing green on Saint Patrick’s Day is now the norm, it was not the initial color of choice. When the Order of St. Patrick was established in the 1780s, the followers wore blue. Green was only adopted once it became associated with Irish nationalism in the 1790s and deemed a good representation of the country’s green hills. Its popularity escalated in the 19th and 20th centuries.
While it’s unclear why we pinch those who haven’t worn the color, some believe the habit originated in the US to give people a green bruise. It could also stem from the Irish folklore that it makes people invisible to leprechauns, enabling them to capture the elusive creatures easily. Whatever the reason, a recent survey by Cox Media revealed that 83 percent of Americans celebrating the holiday this year intend to wear green.
Chasing Leprechauns and Pots of Gold
Photo Credit: Ann (CC by 2.0 via Flickr)
Leprechauns have become one of the holiday’s most beloved symbols. The shoemakers of the fairy world are believed to know the location of pots of gold hidden at the end of a rainbow. According to folklore, they will also have to grant three wishes to the person that manages to catch them. Unfortunately, the roguish fairies are extremely elusive and have yet to be captured, or even sighted.
Parades And Other Celebrations
St. Patrick’s Day parade 2016 (Photo Credit: Navy Band Northeast – CC by 2.0 via Flickr)
While most US cities hold a St. Patrick’s Day Parade, New York City, which began the tradition in 1762, hosts the biggest one. The five-hour-long, volunteer-organized, extravaganza along Fifth Avenue features over 150,000 marchers and attracts more than two million spectators. Though the Dublin parade, which started in 1998, cannot match the impressive statistics, the city makes up for the deficiency with a week-long celebration which attracts over a million revelers.
For the ninth consecutive year, over 300 of the world’s iconic landmarks will celebrate the occasion by turning green on March 17. Among them will be the Great Wall of China, the London Eye, the mighty Niagara Falls, as well as Sydney’s Opera House. In Chicago, the local sanitation workers will continue the 50-year-tradition of temporarily transforming the Chicago River an emerald green with the help of 45 pounds of nontoxic vegetable dye.
Food! Food! Food!
Traditional St. Patrick’s Day meal (Photo Credit: sk CC by 2.0 via Flickr)
No celebration is complete without feasting on a customary dish or two. For St. Patrick’s Day, that means chowing down on corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots. The tradition is believed to have originated from early Irish immigrants to the United States, who were only able to afford meat once a week. As beef was the cheapest option, it became the meat of choice. However, don’t expect to see the Irish in Ireland dining on the same fare! They typically indulge in bacon and lamb and would have most likely consumed pork and potatoes or soda bread and hot Irish stew back in the day.
