[sw-l] Sign for Leprechaun?

[Sandy Fleming]

Thanks!

I've forwarded this to her.

We have a sign for "Irish" - I don't know if it's used in ISL/NISL which
involves flicking a finger at the lapel, indicating a shamrock. Before I got
your email I suggested making this sign at the side of the hatband instead,
for "leprechaun". At least a lot of the cartoon leprechauns I've seen seem
to wear a shamrock in their hatband!

Sandy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of Shane Gilchrist
> Ó hEorpa
> Sent: 02 February 2005 21:38
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Subject: RE: [sw-l] Sign for Leprechaun?
>
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>
> Sandy,
>
> Ceist maith! (good question!)
>
> The leprechaun - in NISL, now that is a good question because theres not
> many leprechauns in our mythology up North - its more focused on warriors
> and love stories (one of my ex boyfriends complained to me that we have
> better stories whereas down South they have to talk about stupid
> things like
> leprechauns and pots of gold etc!) - and it was because the industrial
> revolution started and was contained in the North (Belfast:
> linen, foundry,
> shipyard, Belfast sinks etc - that was sent all over the world - Dublin
> wasn't even a capital (still governed from London) - for the past
> 200 years
> so very little desire for mythological gold. Lepruchuans (associated with
> getting the mythical gold) was made popular in Irish America -
> believe it or
> not, it was Ireland's poor that emigrated to America - the rich stayed in
> Ireland (you ll have some Americans coming to Ireland claiming that their
> ancestors used to own that castle, this castle, this castle - when most
> castles here in Ireland were built by for the Normans, the Vikings, the
> Anglo-Irish etc - the Celts didn't live in castles!!!)
>
> And it is so funny - the Irish version of lepruchuans is not even
> the Disney
> version of lepruchuans - in many Irish mythology, lepruachuans were evil,
> selfish, cannibals or something like that - and often they were
> compared to
> Jewish people (the stereotypes of course)
>
> RIGHT...the sign for lepruchuan - I have asked 6 different people
> - and only
> one matched my sign (lazy sign maybe?)
>
> (Val, u'll have to forgive me as im very tired to use signwriting
> as im not
> fluent yet!)
>
> 1. ELF (long ears) - my sign - I usually sign it as "ooooh elf,
> evil-eyes-rolling, clapping-hands-once, come, come, will-devour-you...bite
> you-in-the-leg, bite-off" - not the sign you want to tell your
> mate, Sandy?
> ;) (can be used in ISL or NISL)
>
> 2. LONG MR SPOOK EARS (both hands) - SMALL-CHILD - IRISH (in NISL)
>
> 3. MISCHIEVOUS E-L-F (in NISL)
>
> 4. E-L-F small mr-spook-ears
>
> 5. small man long beard pointy head (influenced by America)
>
> 6. green man (in ISL)
>
> 7. man green (in NISL)
>
> 8. witch's son (one said he saw someone religious signing it as "devil
> hide-away-hide-away"!!!!)
>
> 9. little man doing-the-jig (irish dancing)
>
> If I train interpreters, I'll tell them to use the sign "elf" - but in
> England, I guess you ll have to say "elf their Ireland" to be
> more precise.
>
> Shane
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu [mailto:owner-sw-
> > l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] On Behalf Of Sandy Fleming
> > Sent: 02 February 2005 15:52
> > To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> > Subject: [sw-l] Sign for Leprechaun?
> >
> > Shane,
> >
> > A friend of mine is asking me for a sign for "leprechaun" for her deaf
> > child - do you know one you could teach me, by any chence?  :)
> >
> > Sandy
> >
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