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Easter is one of the most sacred and special of the Christian Holidays, often celebrated using commemorative religious or passion plays: remembering the Resurrection of Jesus. Observed during Spring at the time of Palm Friday and Easter Sunday.

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A leprechaun (Irish: leipreachán) is a type of fairy in Irish folklore, usually taking the form of an old man clad in a red or green coat, who greatly enjoys partaking in or causing mischief. The modern image of the leprechaun is almost universal: he is depicted as having red hair (often with a beard) and wears an emerald green frock coat. He's especially prevalent around Saint Paddy's Day.

In a poem entitled The Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker, 18th century Irish poet William Allingham describes the appearance of the leprechaun as:

...A wrinkled, wizen'd, and bearded Elf,
Spectacles stuck on his pointed nose,
Silver buckles to his hose,
Leather apron — shoe in his lap..

Like other fairy creatures, leprechauns have been linked to the Tuatha Dé Danann of Irish mythology. Popular depictions show leprechauns as being no taller than a small child.

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Leprechauns in Centuries Past
In 1831 the songwriter, painter and novelist Samuel Lover described the leprechaun as "quite a beau in his dress, notwithstanding, for he wears a red square-cut coat, richly laced with gold, and inexpressible of the same, cocked hat, shoes and buckles."

According to Yeats, the solitary fairies, like the leprechaun, wear red jackets, whereas the "trooping fairies" wear green. "The leprechaun's jacket has seven rows of buttons with seven buttons to each row. On the western coast the red jacket is covered by a frieze one, and in Ulster the creature wears a cocked hat, and when he is up to anything unusually mischievous, he leaps on to a wall and spins, balancing himself on the point of the hat with his heels in the air."

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Shore n' begorrah! Don't forget to wear your green shamrocks to celebrate our patron Saint of the beloved Emerald Isle: Ireland, where the day is a national holiday.

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St. Patrick's Day History:
In the past, Saint Patrick's Day was celebrated as a religious holiday. It started as a simple feast day to honour St. Patrick but developed into a holy day of obligation where people attended mass in the morning and celebrate for the rest of the day in the afternoon.

During the Middle Ages, shops would close for the whole day as the celebration became longer and more enthusiastic. It was also during this time that St. Patrick's Day became a one-day reprieve from the forty days of fasting during the season of Lent. For many Christians this included indulging in ale, a beer brewed from malted barley. Over the years drinking ale and other beer products became a tradition for the day.

St. Patrick's religious background:
Patrick was born around 385 in Scotland, probably Kilpatrick. His parents were Calpurnius and Conchessa, who were Romans living in Britian in charge of the colonies.

As a boy of fourteen or so, he was captured during a raiding party and taken to Ireland as a slave to herd and tend sheep. Ireland at this time was a land of Druids and pagans. He learned the language and practices of the people who held him.

During his captivity, he turned to God in prayer. He wrote

"The love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same." "I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain."

Patrick was ordained a bishop, and was sent to take the Gospel to Ireland. He arrived in Ireland March 25, 433, at Slane. One legend says that he met a chieftain of one of the tribes, who tried to kill Patrick. Patrick converted Dichu (the chieftain) after he was unable to move his arm until he became friendly to Patrick.

Patrick's captivity lasted until he was twenty, when he escaped after having a dream from God in which he was told to leave Ireland by going to the coast. There he found some sailors who took him back to Britian, where he reunited with his family.

Why a shamrock?
Originally the color associated with St. Patrick was blue, not green. Over time mythology evolved that St. Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Trinity, and has been associated with him and the Irish since that time. The shamrock was traditionally used for its medical properties and was a popular motif in Victorian times. The four-leaf clover is often confused with the shamrock. While the four-leaf clover is a symbol of good luck, the three-leafed shamrock is mainly an Irish Christian symbol of the Holy Trinity and has a different significance.

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Others say the modern era of creepy and terrifying characters really began with Rosemary's Baby(1968) or The Exorcist(1973). Who really knows since it's a matter of subjective opinion? One thought is that "the mark of a great horror film is whether it sustains its vision of terror through several generations of increasingly desensitized viewers. Does the movie still make you jump or squirm or sweat or scream?"[1]

However, that hasn't prevented Halloween Monsters from compiling our 2009 list of some of the most memorable AND scariest, creepiest villains, monsters and horror movie characters that come to mind around Halloween season:

• Halloween: Michael Myers, the silent but deadly school-wandering rubber latex mask wearing murderer with a big butcher knife.

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