Happy coming St. Patrick’s Day, let beer and Irish ale pour in our house like the river, let the green clothes do bother passers-by, and let the shamrock bring good luck. Let this happy festival be celebrated as loud as on its homeland, and the immense joy triumph in our hearts!

Chasing rainbows, searching for mythical leprechauns and pots of gold, counting the leaves on clovers— these are all images that come to mind when St. Patrick’s Day comes

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner, and with it comes an array of myths and legends that children and adults alike know and love. This includes tales of leprechauns and pots of gold at the end of a rainbow. 

Folklore depicts leprechauns as mistrustful creatures who detest humans. According to legend, leprechauns found the abandoned gold and buried it again so no human could ever find it. The old folktales tell us that there is a pot of gold hidden where the end of any rainbow touches the earth. 

Rainbows do not have an end since their arch shape is an illusion!

Fun Things to do on St. Patrick’s Day

1.Bake a bread

2. Wear green

3.Make an Irish Meal: make a traditional beef stew and a cabbage with mustard glaze.

4. Make a a shamrock cookie decorative contest. Get a green icing ahead of time.

5. Make a green peppermint milkshake: With some vanilla, ice cream, peppermint, and green food coloring, you can have the most beautifully delicious drink.

6.Bake green lucky charm cookies

7. Listen to Irish poetry

8. Make an Irish Coffee

9. Listen to Irish Music and learn Irish Dancing

10. Search for 4 leaf-clovers

11. Drink green beer

12.Travel to Ireland. What better way to celebrate the quintessential Irish holiday than a trip to the land of Saints and Scholars! Dublin, the capital city, usually holds a five day festival in honor of the holiday and is the location of Ireland’s largest and most impressive St. Patrick’s Day parade. 

17 March is much more than just Guinness, pinching, and wearing green. Like many traditional holidays, St Patrick’s Day has roots in Paganism. You’ve probably heard the legend of St Patrick delivering a sermon so powerful it chased the snakes out of Ireland. That story is believed by many to be a metaphor representing St. Pat chasing the Pagans and Druidic priests (the snakes) out of the country. Pagans use this day to remind ourselves of the Druids and the traditions of the bards by playing music, listening to stories and honouring the Triple Goddess with an altar and a libation (which is not green beer!).

If you catch a leprechaun, you can force him to tell you where he hid his pot of gold, which is somewhere at the end of a rainbow.