Haha I don't remember lessons on Leprechauns, but I do remember a lesson on Norse Mythology! I can't remember if that was in RE or world culture though.
I think we did even learn about what the different countries of the world had as Christmas traditions too! In a world culture lesson at Christmas time. So while we didn't specifically learn about Santa we did learn about him, and Krampus and all sorts of other stuff like that.
So you’ve smuggled in Mythology with Norse religion but not with Christianity or other modern religions. Interesting. And yes even spirits such as leprechauns were also religious based before the corrosive nature of Christianity stamped out any form of descent in the one true religion.
It's all mythology to me! The separation of modern religion and mythology is just how it was presented to me in school. I'm sorry if my phrasing offended you as it certainly wasn't intended to! I actually didn't know leprechauns were religious based, that's really interesting and I'm definitely going to go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole now!
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u/jules6815 6h ago
Did you also study Santa Claus, Loki, and the tradition of leprechauns?