Ecologists are currently struggling to teach modern man the same ideas. This is what the stories of wee people in all cultures were designed to teach. And if one was sensitive and actually did hear or sense communication from a rock, they would not be as frightened believing it was a gnome. If one looks pragmatically at the stories of leprechauns and fairies, one can learn a great deal about life and earth. The beings in these stories always live in nature and they leave an area when it is populated with humans who build cities and destroy their natural surroundings.
Leprechauns teach a humorous tale.
When things are out of balance, as with a wheel, they don t run smoothly. When we translate that lesson to the stories, we see that those who are able to gain, through trickery, the leprechaun s gold, have a miserable future. The tales are as true today as they were when first told. Basically, because they do. Some people have an extended awareness that is sensitive to the communication of consciousness from non-human sources.