Dec 11 2009
Nicaraguan leprechauns
“Nicaraguan newspapers report annually of school children afraid to attend class and farmers who flee ranches thanks to horrifying little duendes, who appear, laughing their dangerously contagious duende laugh, invisible to most, but completely visible and both repulsive and enticing, to a select few. Managua daily El Nuevo Diario on January 12 of this year reported of the widow Doña Fátima López who escaped the rock throwing duendes that attacked her home near Cuapa, Chontales; finding refuge in her father’s farm 90 km east, only to have the duendes follow her and steal her small son one night from bed and leave him asleep outside in a cattle trough. The same newspaper demonstrated on June 21, 2003 that duendes can even penetrate the nation’s sprawling capital city of Managua. Managua’s Colegio Nicarao (primary and secondary school) principle reported to the periodical that five students arrived to her office dazed, apparently under a “strange influence”. They then described to her contact with a yellow duende, who wore a green scarf and had long ears, blond hair, blue eyes, arching eyebrows, a wrinkled white face, red mouth was about a half-meter tall sporting pointy shoes and white socks….”
Paragraph is part of essay “Nicaraguan leprechauns” written by freelance photographer Richard Leonardi
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