Popular Culture Leprechaun

Films, television cartoons and advertising have popularised a specific image of leprechauns which bears little resemblance to anything found in the cycles of Irish folklore. It can be considered that the popularised image of a leprechaun is little more than a series of stereotypes based on derogatory 19th-century caricatures. **The Notre Dame Leprechaun is the official mascot of the Fighting Irish sports teams at the University of Notre Dame. **Boston Celtics logo features the mascot of the team Lucky the Leprechaun. **Professional wrestler Dylan Mark Postl competed and appeared as Hornswoggle, a leprechaun who lived under the ring, for the majority of his WWE tenure.