In many Irish folktales, the leprechaun is a skilled cobbler; the reason he has a pot ...

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In many Irish folktales, the leprechaun is a skilled cobbler; the reason he has a pot of gold is that many fairies pay him to fix their shoes. W. B. Yeats theorized that most fairies need a good cobbler because they wear out their shoes with all their dancing.
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